THROAT CANCER STRIKES AGAIN - MY BROTHER

Spent this morning at the hospital with my older brother who had a biopsy done on his right tonsil.  Came back as Squamous Cell Carcinoma with metastasis in a lymph node on the right side.  Won't know of it is HPV+16 till next week.

So that makes 3 members of my family who have had SCC of the throat.  My father and my brother were both heavy drinkers and smokers.  I was not.

I'm pretty sure he has had it for at least a year or more.  So while he was helping me go through my battle he also had cancer and didn't know it.

CAT SCAN FINDINGS

FINDINGS:

The rib parotid glands appear unremarkable. The submandibular glands are atrophic (radiation fried my saliva glands).

There is a stable 5 mm stone in the right submandibular duct. 

No enlarged cervical lymph nodes are seen. 

No laryngeal mass is identified.   

There is a 1.6 cm nodule in the right lobe of the thyroid, decreased from 03/07/2018.    (This is good news.)

Images through the upper lungs demonstrate no significant abnormality.