Rise in Tonsillar Cancer-What’s Behind It? 

Great video and very informative.

Thank you for the video

I developed a painless left side neck lump on april 8 of this year and it's still here 5 months later. I got over shingles in march of this year and suspect that both shingles and the lump were triggered by the moderna cov'd vaccine I received in late fall 2021 and then just a month later in late Nov. 2021 is when I contracted shingles.

Yeah right! At 05:20 it is stated that HPV Positive throat cancers "do a lot better" than non-HPV related cases, which may very well be true. What she fails to mention is that the "Standard of Care" treatment protocol is the same for either version. If its determined to be locally advanced stage 3 or 4a involving the base of tongue and a tonsil for example, treatment is: Radiation 5 days a week with chemo 1 day a week for 7 weeks. Surgery is generally not an option in late stage cases. The fact is, oropharyngeal cancers are rarely caught early because there are no symptoms or reason to investigate until its too late. What most people fail to realize compared to other cancers is that the oropharyngeal area of the body controls all eating, drinking, swallowing, speaking, taste, and breathing functions all of which can be affected. Too bad there is no HPV test for men or a vaccine that actually works on older adults because the adverse side effects from the treatment are brutal and can last a year or longer during recovery AFTER treatment ends. If one can endure the long-term highly morbid side effects, they may actually have a good chance of survival... I'm not trying to scare anyone but facts are facts and the whole story should be told up front by doctors without sugarcoating anything.

I’m waiting on an urgent referral since finding a big lump on my tonsil, have to wait for my appointment but am very nervous

Pls, can a tonsil cancer patient with a huge tumor on the neck be cured?