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Wow thank you everyone for your response, this has been a great help for me.
Tomorrow we get the PET scan done which will tell us if surgery is a possibility. Ed you mentioned MD Anderson and how they reviewed everything within 24 hours, whom exactly did you contact, I only found the

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Swati,

I went to the New Patient section, filled out the self referral form and they called me the next day. I am not sure of exactly how it progressed but I remember them giving me a phone number after I faxed path reports and scan results and I was instructed to have my doctor call the doctor there. I don't know what I did with my notes but it was little effort for me to get it all done. Here is a link where I started:
http://www.mdanderson.org/Departments/headandneck/dIndex.cfm?pn=DC30E167-7545-11D4-AEC300508BDCCE3A

I hope this helps.

Ed


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