Radiation and chemotherapy. Mine started out as HPV 16 positive tumor lower tongue and right tonsil area. Could not get reduced radiation so I have been trying to get into a clinical trial or better yet you immuno therapy. However now I have a mass that has turned to t4 n3, this was after almost a year and a half of slow progression. I was trying to get into the Keytruda trial that was being offered , but my insurance is not accepted for the testing so I cannot even try to get in. I might just as well have taken the excessive radiation and chemo and dealt with the toxicity if this were to be the case. Obviously, I didn't understand how the system worked. Or should I say how it doesn't. I don't mean to sound bitter, but I am angry that I was not given either opportunity or any choices. It was, after all, my life.

Recently diagnosed with squamous tongue cancer. It showed up as a lesion on tongue. No evidence of palpable tumor or swollen lymph nodes they want to remove it with a laser any ideas ? Thanks