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Radical Neck Dissection concerns

Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: May 22, 2023 | Replies (7)

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@hrhwilliam

Hello and welcome Yolande73. You have presented a rather difficult situation. Let us see who has experience in neck dissection as there are many eyes on this forum. Personally I don't take much stock in PET scans as they are a tool but not a tell-all. They often show scar tissue as cancer. A PET scan three months after radiation? I shan't say more. Mind you I am not a doctor, just a patient.
Is your husband being treated at a cancer center or large hospital or Mayo, etc?

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Hello William, and thank you. He is being treated at a tiny cancer center. Everything is outsourced, though. It is called the Hope Cancer Center. He is the only oncologist in town, and we still had to go 150 miles round trip for chemotherapy. They don't have a full-time clinic up here they are in town 3 days a week, Sorry for the drawn-out answer. So it is not a big clinic but it is supposed to be specialized, He was sent out for radiation to Genesis Care. And again sent out for the ENT at UNLV. He had a total of 6 PETs, 3 CTs w/o contrast and 2 with, 4 fna biopsies, 2 core sample biopsies, and one scoped biopsy where they put him asleep to do it.