|    |       Joined:  Aug 2008  Posts: 531    "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)   |           "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)    Joined:  Aug 2008  Posts: 531  |    Awsome pete I am so glad to hear ....something interesting today though I thought that my staging was T2N0 but when I got a note to give to disability it said removed a tumor T3N0 so I guess it was bigger than we thought....oh well its gone now!!!!        
Dianne..treatment at cc at Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario...insulin dependant, Surgery Sept 8/08 Tracheotomy,composite resection and bilateral neck dissection, left radial forearm free flap... T2N0 squamous cell carcinoma. No radiation A little over 2 yrs clear YAY
  |      |       |               |    |       Joined:  Jun 2007  Posts: 10,507 Likes: 8    Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)   |           Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)    Joined:  Jun 2007  Posts: 10,507 Likes: 8  |    Glad to hear you had good news today            ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44  2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07  -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma  2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years  very happy to be alive       |      |       |               |    |       Joined:  Oct 2006  Posts: 46    Contributing Member (25+ posts)   |           Contributing Member (25+ posts)    Joined:  Oct 2006  Posts: 46  |    Woo hoo!!  Great news, Pete!          
CG to spouse, tonsillar SCC, T2N0M0, tonsillectomy 9/06, 35 rad tx finished 12/06, no chemo.  Positive PET 3/07 in tonsillar fossa (residual tumor), surgery 4/2/07 composite resection tonsillar fossa and BOT w/forearm graft and right ND.
  |      |       |               |    |       Joined:  Nov 2005  Posts: 1,128    Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)   |      OP      Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)    Joined:  Nov 2005  Posts: 1,128  |    BTW, Doc Haakenslash also personally gave me a tongue-cut, like a haircut except on the tongue <grinz> and said we might do some hair-zapping when he sees me again in January 2009.  He's got to be one of the world's highest paid barbers....        
Age 67 1/2 Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05 Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08 Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08 Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06 Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08) Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08) On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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