Greetings,
I got your website address while searching for skin cancer treatment in Dubai. If you have expertise in this, please do advise and give me an appointment to meet up or else please advise who in Dubai are cancer expert clinics.
My father is 74 years old and recently diagnosed what the report captions "moderately differentiated keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma". this is on right glottis while left is clear. he is stage 2. His report is attached.
I want to ask several questions about it including:
1) is chemo or/and radiation therapy is mandatory because his health is not very good to handle such treatment really.
2) does it spread to other body parts? could it be life threatening?
3) can he live with it even if it goes to stage 3? is it advisable not to treat it and instead, quit smoking and take good oral care?
4) if his vocal cord is removed by surgery adn replaced by what they call a microphone, how well would he be able to speak?
5) my father is a strong nerved brave man and could fight back psychologically but physically, he isn't is good shape. what do you advise?
any support will be highly appreciated from the learned experts and any patients who recovered from this.
kind regards,
Ali
Reply # - August 23, 2014, 01:54 PM
Reply To: squamous cell carcinoma
Hello Ali,
I am sorry to hear of your father's diagnosis. Unfortunately, GRACE does not currently have a skin cancer specialist, nor is it possible to review detailed medical reports. You may want to search for sites which directly focus on skin cancer. This page from the Skin Cancer Foundation lists contact information for a number of organizations which may be able to provide helpful information: http://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-information/support
Good luck.
JimC
Forum moderator
Reply # - August 23, 2014, 02:55 PM
Reply To: squamous cell carcinoma
Here is a link specific to stage II larynx cancer, http://www.texasoncology.com/types-of-cancer/head-and-neck-cancers/lary…
Janine
Reply # - August 24, 2014, 09:35 AM
Reply To: squamous cell carcinoma
Let us know if you have a specific question about your father's care. I think we'll better be able to help if you read through our forum guidelines that describe how we work. http://cancergrace.org/grace-discussion-forums#guidelines
We also have detail info on head and neck cancer. The first page or so focuses on advanced (your father's is early stage) so move to the older blogs to find what your looking for. http://cancergrace.org/hnscc/
All best,
Janine