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• mikespike has replied to a post on the message board

  Hey Ryan, Sorry you have to go thru this. I had same thing but they caught in time and I had surgery in Feb. They say they got 99% of it removed. I was given a choice Chemo+Radiation or nothing. I chose nothing. 3rd PET scan since shows negative but I still worry. If you are a candidate for the T.O.R.S. surgery, I would definately do that, as it is very successful in removing enough cancer for minimal if a...

  July 11 at 11:54 PM view post

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  Update: So my new part-time job allowed me to obtain insurance and was able to have a TORS surgery for my toncile and some lympth nodes removed out of my neck as well. I am now about 90% recovered from the surgery and was only out of work for a month (back now). They removed the tumor in my throat and 99.99% of all bad cells out of my neck. Next month I get my followup PET scan ... hopefully it's nega...

  May 05, 2012 view post

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  Hello, Newbie here and in Sept 2011, had problems with swallowing pain and ear pain (all right side) very bad pain... What is messed up is,... after seeing a family doctor numorous times, A dentist 2x who gave me a cervicle xray, ENT gave me a Cat scan and an esophageal Xray - Barium Swallow test, Nota one saw any problems and after some antibiotics and pain killers (motrin) the pa...

  February 11, 2012 view discussion