Dear Catherine,
You live so close to many excellent cancer facilities, please go to a Comprehensive Cancer Center and proceed with a full exam and diagnosis with them. With the symptoms you have, you need a good workup, including some scans, and there is no need to continue with a less-experienced doctor for this. IF you have more problems turning up, you are going to want treatment from a larger center anyway, and if they do a full workup and find that you DO NOT have more cancer, then you'll have the confidence that you have really been throughly examined. I don't like the options your doctor gave you. There are other, better ones!

--Colleen

Last edited by August; 11-28-2008 10:55 AM.
Colleen--T-2N0M0 SCC dx'd 12/28/05...Hemi-maxillectomy, partial palatectomy, neck dissection 1/4/06....clear margins, neg. nodes....no radiation, no chemo....Cancer-free at 4 years!