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Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 598 | Great news!!!!! Don't be too hard on the Radiation and Medical Oncologist for not using a scope and camera. I had a scope and camera every 6 months, and it totally missed my tumor. Many doctors shy away from the camera/scopes for routine examinations, because the field of view is small, shadows are more severe, and it can actually be easier to miss things than with a wider field of view.
Jeff
SCC Right BOT Dx 3/28/2007
T2N2a M0G1,Stage IVa
Bilateral Neck Dissection 4/11/2007
39 x IMRT, 8 x Cisplatin Ended 7/11/07
Complete response to treatment so far!!
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | That is great news, but I wonder why they don't have the lighted scopes? Mine all have them. I guess we all have to take the Drs word for a lot of things.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,004 | Oh Sandy that is so wonderful!!! Ahhh..the magic words we love to hear pink and healthy.
Please always share your joys...that's what we are here for:)
xoxo
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:)
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