Bill,

I'm not a medical professional, but from everything I've read here in the past couple of years, I'd have to wonder where your ENT got that idea.

I do seem to recall that someone I worked with made a similar remark to me shortly after I was diagnosed years ago, and I think it was based on their having read something about skin cancer (and the fact that it's probably better to have squamous cell skin cancer than melanoma). I remember passing this comment along to my oral surgeon at the time, and he said that the person who said that obviously knew nothing about SCC of the oral variety, which certainly can metastasize elsewhere in the body.

Cathy