Hi AK - welcome to the family. You will find a lot of caring, knowledgeable people here who can help you and your brother through this journey. If it turns out to be oral cancer, it would probably be a good idea if you could get brother to join the forum himself. Having a great caregiver is a real blessing, but there's lots he needs to learn himself about this disease and it's treatment. If he joins he will think of and ask more questions than if you do all the reading, thinking, communicating for him.

Good luck with the diagnosis. If it turns out to be oral cancer, you know we are here to help you.

take care
Tony

Tony, 69, non-smoker, aerobatics pilot, bridge player/teacher, avid dancer (ballroom, latin, swing, country)

09/13 SCC, HPV 16, tonsillectomy, T2N0.
11/13 start rads, no chemo
12/13 taste gone, dry mouth,
02/14 hair slowly returning
05/14 taste the same, dry sinuses, irrigation helps.
01/15 food taste about 60% returned, dry sinuses are worse in winter.
12/20 no more sinus problems, taste pretty good