Thank you all for your understanding of my stress. I hope I can get to that stage soon. Everytime I thought I saw/felt something suspicious my doctor wanted to do a partial glossectomy. I left that doctor and now see my current doctor at Fox Chase. So now, she looks at it and determins what she thinks when I see/feel something. This worries me because we all know you can't diagnose visually. My mom asked my current doctor why she can't do a needle biopsy and she said they are not good for this cancer. I have seen several people here say they have had them. Does anyone know why my doctor may have said that? The only good thing is a surgical biopsy doesn't hurt.� So far I've had one appointment where I feel fine and my doc agreed with me. I just hope I will have more and more of them and then I can start to relax.I still want to know why the medical profession doesn't spend more time with the mental stress of cancer. That has been SO MUCH HARDER for me than anything else to date. I realize that is not what they do, but I feel they should touch on it.
Gary, I like your quote, it makes a lot of sense.
Me2 I see in your signature you have a 65% chance of recurrence, what type of test is done to determine that?

Jim...you are right, I don't like things sugar coated:) Here's hoping nothing comes back and gets me in the kisser!!!

Last edited by suzanne98; 07-03-2009 05:58 PM.
Suzanne
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T1 SCC on right side of tongue
Age 31...27 when diagnosed
4 partial glossectomies
No chemo or radiation
Biopsy on 2/2/10-Clear
Surgery needed again...no later than April 2011
Loving life and just became a mother on 11/25/10
It's not what we CAN'T do..it's what we CAN do:)