CCC = comprehensive cancer center (a facility where physicians from a variety of specialties meet together to come up with a individualized treatment plan for each patient).

TX = treatment

There are a lot of shorthand terms used in these forums -- explanations available here .

There are people on this board who have been treated at Emory, in Atlanta -- if you do a search on Emory (search link at the top of each page), using "search in all open forums," you can find who they are and e-mail them for information. Given your husband's diagnosis, you really want a team of physicians involved in his care who consult regularly and work smoothly together.

-- Leslie


Leslie

April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.