Hello everyone, I am Rob, and I am new.My Wife was Diagnosed stage 3 hard palate SCC in mid Jan. She has been receiving chemo and radiation 5 times a week. Today they told her that it has progressed to stage 4A and it is now in her left side Lymph nodes and sinuses. I will be talking to the doctor Wednesday, and was wondering if any of you had any advice as to the most important questions to ask at this stage.

Rob,

Please limit your similar questions to one board so we can concentrate our responses. Since you posted the same question to Introduce Yourself, that's where I posted my response.

You will find this site to be of tremendous value.

Hi, Rob. I am sorry that you and your wife have to go through this experience. I, too, had SCC on the hard palate as well as the right maxilla. My details and treatment were different from yours, but still I feel a kinship. There are not many people on the forum with SCC of the palate.

I see that you are in Knoxville. One of our contributors, Raymond Cupp, lives in Knoxville and had surgery for SCC of the palate at UT on this past Friday. Not surprisingly, he has not posted since then, but I expect him to post again as soon as he feels better. He might be a good source of information about UT.

I wish you the best. Please keep us posted, and ask anything you wish of anyone on this forum. It is a wonderful place to get information you can't get anywhere else. And it is a place where people understand what you are going through.

I thought two worms would catch more fish. Sorry for the multiple posting. My wife, Pat, was diagnosed by an Oncologist at Thompson Cancer Center. They have been treating her twice a day. Chemo in the morning and radiation in the afternoon 5 days a week. I am hopefull. The fact that it is now in her lymph nodes scares both of us. They did a blood test to determine if it has spread to her liver yesterday. Results today or tomorrow.