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Joined: May 2008 Posts: 551 | Catherine,
If I were in your shoes, I would insist on scans ASAP, if not sooner. This is not the time to sit on your hands. BE PUSHY! If this doc won't order scans for you, find one that will. A team approach to treatment is better anyway.
And no, don't worry about being obsessed about this cancer. You need to be more stubborn than it is if you're going to beat it and if you need further treatment, lemme tell ya, its a full time job!
Good luck to you.
- Margaret
Stage IV SCC lt lateral tongue, surgery 5/19/08 (partial gloss/upper neck dissection left side/radial free flap reconstruction) IMRT w/weekly Cisplatin & Erbitux 6/30/08, PEG 1 6/12/08 - out 7/14 (in abdominal wall, not stomach), PEG 2 7/23/08 - out 11/20/08, Tx done 8/18/08
Second SCC tumor, Stage 1, rt mobile tongue, removed 10/18/2016, right neck dissection 12/9/2016
Third SCC tumor, diagnosed, 4/19/2108, rt submandibular mass, HPV-, IMRT w/ weekly Cisplatin, 5/9 - 6/25/2018, PEG 3 5/31/2018
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