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.
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