Senior Member (100+ posts) Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 118 | I think it is in your best interest to get to CCC. I wish my husband had gone the first time. I really don't think that our local docs here have any clue about this particular cancer. He goes to UCSF (San Francisco) now and the docs, nurses, etc. are all specifically trained in head and neck cancer and that's what you want.
Bette/CG to husband Reggie 66
dx 1: SCC Soft Palate (12/06) tx: chemo and rad
dx 2: SCC 6 cm tum rt. vocal chord (12/09) tx: total laryngectomy with stoma, 2 nodes
dx 3: SCC 4 cm tum BOT (10/16/12) Tx: partial gloss w/ mod deck dis 4 nodes incl. part. pharyngectomy
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