 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | I imagine it goes to OTHER lymph nodes -- They don't try to take them all out, just the ones likely to be compromised by the cancer site(s) -- All I know is basically what I'm told or read through OCF.
Of course, Dr Haakenslash and his team of Cutthroats may have been biased because he apparently needed the former node sites to tie in the blood vessels for my free flap <grinz>.
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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