Hello

Hi Chris and welcome. Waiting is rubbish. We all get through but it's not easy. We we will all help as much as we can so stick around

Hi Dani

Thanks for your kind words will def be sticking around as coming here has helped me so much

Read your blog its excellent 

Will update as soon as i know 

Many Thanks

Chris

Thanks for reading it it was the only thing I could control. It saved my sanity 

Hi Chris. The waiting is the worst part it’s fear of the unknown. Good to keep off google stick with us will all help when  we can.

welcome from me as well 

Hazel

Hi Hazel

Thanks for dropping by to say hello so appreciated i read your blog its amazing and so helpful 

Will keep updated as i know will need any advice i can get 

Many Thanks

Chris

Hi Chris only too happy to help. You can’t beat first hand knowledge. In the scheme of things our cancers are fairly rare. No one I knew had heard of it before my diagnosis.

Hazel 

Hi Hazel

Yes totally agree have done a bit if reaserch on here and says they are very rare but am so pleased that im chatting to people who know what to expect through all of this means so much

Many Thanks 

Chris

Laryngeal cancer is much more rare than oropharyngeal. I think the statistics according to CRUK are 

1 in 188 UK males and 1 in 834 UK females will be diagnosed with laryngeal cancer in their lifetime.

1 in 55 UK males and 1 in 108 UK females will be diagnosed with oral cancer in their lifetime.

Most OP cancer is due to HPV virus now that smoking rates are much lower.

It's the sixth most common cancer diagnosed. We don't hear about it because education is sorely lacking. Even now that there is a vaccine against HPV the stress is on preventing cervical cancer in women. Vaccination is free in this country, cervical cancer rates are going down in young women and disease rates will come down in the other cancers it causes as they years go by

I hadn't really heard much about it either except that one of my hero's (Graham Chapman) died of it...but then he drank like fish and smoked like a chimney. I knew about it and indeed diagnosed my own cancer as soon as I found it.

Hi Dani 

Didnt realise it was that rare did read somewhere that if its in the glottis region it does not spread so hopefully ill be lucky 

Thank you for letting me know 

Chris

Fingers crossed.xx