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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | As Samantha's FB friends already know, the planned mandibulectomy for Monday has been cancelled. Her PET scan showed a second cancerous spot. With her permission, here are exerpts copied from her FB pages.....
Bad news... Waiting on the doc to call. Not sure what I should be thinking or feeling. The second spot in my pet scan was in fact cancer. So its spread to a couple places in my neck. The doc said surgery might not be a possible treatment anymore. Waiting for him to call to learn more...
So surgery is no longer an option... The cancer is most likely all through my neck and with surgery they could remove some of it but not all and it will just grow right back. Its really bad now. We are going to try radiation, some new chemos and hopefully some trial drugs now. I asked what my odds were, the odds r against me at this point...
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
