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Oct 27, 2009 - 9:12 am
Hi Guys, I have been diagnosed with T3 N2 base of the tongue cancer and what's worrying me just before i start treatment on 7th November, my lymph node has swelled to 6cm and is now aching mainly at night i take tyronol for it, in a few months and the MRI scan reveals the other side is showing signs of swelling but no noticeable yet. Did any one have a node of 6cm and do you think it is to far gone to help me yet or do I stand a good chance of 5 year survival the doctor said when it was 3cm about 6 weeks ago I have 70% chance but its a fast growing cancer even though he said the primary in my BOT is mild to mod. any help will be wonderful to put my mind at rest. regards Teacher JON |
Joined: Oct 2009
John, at the risk of being too general, stop looking at survival rates and just start on the road to recovery! Remember, Lance Armstrong's Pet scan "Lit Up" the scan, His body was full of cancer to include his brain.
Since then he has won how many Tours? 5 or 6
Prayers are with you.
Mike
Joined: Sep 2006
It is common, Jon, to be concerned about survival rates. Please consider, however, that these are based on previous history and this is problematic for at least two reasons.
The first of these is that you are not the mean, the median, the average. Someone has to be in the middle, someone is at the bottom, and someone is at the top, and the rest of us are somewhere along the curve. Our attitudes, our treatments, and the nature of our particular cancer all play a role in where we end up on that curve.
The second is that the statistics are not, cannot, be based on present figures, but on the past, and the past is less and less relevant as each day goes by, as each day provides new resources to our doctors and to ourselves. So, as Mike advises, ignore the stats and concentrate on what YOU need to do to elevate your own chances of survival.
I am a head/neck cancer survivor, went through surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Eventually, I also went through surgery for lu