Well, not so good news on the right side, the regular stains didn't show any obvious cancer, but evidently didn't look quite normal either, so some special IHS stains were done and these were positive in all 3 nodes looked at, two level 1 nodes and 1 level 2 nodes. So the surgeon is suggesting we treat it as if it were negative since that's what it would be if the special stains hadn't been done. But I'm not comfortable with that, since the special stains were done and they were positive. So I guess we are off to get some different opinions from different people.
Lucinda


Lucinda 52 y.o. no risk factors -dxed 11/10/09 w/ Right lateral tongue SCC 2cm, bilateral neck dissection with 3 nodes positve on right, Induction chemoTx followed by ChemoradioTx, last Tx 4/3/09, PET/CT 11/8/09 showed no sign of recurrence.