Christine;

My old cancer was SCC. My new one, for which I had the mandibulectomy, was radiation-induced osteosarcoma which is sensitive to chemo, namely, the PAM (cisPlatin, Adriomycin, Methotrexate) protocol is the gold standard and what I am currently going through.

I will keep you (and everyone else) up to date as things progress. As far as I know, Dr. Marx is the only guy doing this.

2006 SCC T0 N1 M0; 2006 EBRT x 33, chemo x 3; 2010 Extraction 2 molars; 2010 HBOx30; 2011 Dx osteosarcoma of mandible; 12/20/11 mandibulectomy with temp. titanium plate; 1/31/2012 chemo x 4; 9/19/2012 Reconstruction of mandible with graft from hip and bone morphogenic protein