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Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 179 | Hmmm, this has got me abit worried about my case. I seem to remember my ENT telling me my tumor was 15mm deep and I didn't have a neck dissection????
Minh
35 Yrs old
03/10 SCC T1-T2
Partial Glossectemy end March - margins not clear enough.
While waiting for resection - cancer returned,2 new cancerous lumps
Re-section End May & flap from cheek attatched. Margins clear.
Mid June - 4 teeth out
Mid July -32 Rads and 3 Cisplatin
6th Sept 10 Finished Treatment!!
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Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 8 | HI, Thanks everyone for your advise. I will certainly get a second opinion.
minniemoo, Are you sure your doc said that your tumor was 15mm DEEP, not 15mm in diameter? 15 mm is little more than half an inch.
I think usually 15mm (1.5 cm) diameter tumor would be considered small enough not to require neck dissection.
12/2/10 Biopsy Tongue left near wisdom tooth.
DX Stage I Cancer. Partial left Glosectamy removed Tumor, diameter 2cm, depth >4mm.
12/3/10 CT neck and Chest: Negative. cDX: T1N0M0
1/6/11: Panendoscopy+neck dissection (because Tumor depth > 4mm)
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Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 179 | I will have to check with him when i see him in Feb i think. But i have told by other cancer patients that he is an excellent ENT so i wont panic just yet. Thanks NMT.
MINH
35 Yrs old
03/10 SCC T1-T2
Partial Glossectemy end March - margins not clear enough.
While waiting for resection - cancer returned,2 new cancerous lumps
Re-section End May & flap from cheek attatched. Margins clear.
Mid June - 4 teeth out
Mid July -32 Rads and 3 Cisplatin
6th Sept 10 Finished Treatment!!
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | t that time was it's nothing and will leave. LOL Thye forgot to tell me wuth a scalpel to do it. Finally had my Surgeon check it when I was getting a sciope for Barretts. Ha had an appt. for me with a good ENT when I woke. Then the ball started to roll in the right direction. I had what I kept telling them cancer but didn't know about OC until then. OFC is where I got and still get my couarage. These people are the world's greatest.
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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