Hi there!

My husband had his first SCC (tongue, Stage 1) when he was 28 (July 2006) - they had to remove it the day after my son was born, and they let all three of us share one room! Found mets to right nodes (8 of them positive) in Jan. 2008 and did a radical neck dissection followed by cisplatin and RT to both sides of the neck. A new tumor just formed (Dec. 2008) on the left side of his neck - this one is big - 6mm to start - so they have to do carbo/taxol/Erbitux and rt first, and surgery will come in about 2 months. After three weeks of treatment, it has shrunk more than half.

Joe never smoked, barely drank, never chewed, and did not have HPV.