I am the "manager" of this situation, this disease and everything else that goes along with it. My husband was diagnosed on 6/14 with squamous cell in his lower right jaw. It has apparently eaten away most of the bone mass and he needs to have his right side jaw removed and a "radial forearm free flap" to replace it. Since diagnosis his chin has gone numb and the Dr indicated that the cancer has probably effected the nerve. The PET scan indicated that it has only spread to the lymph nodes on that side. - We were given tentative surgery dates of 7/16 but now are told that they want to set us to August 13th. I am scared to death about the delay. Does anyone else have experience with waiting 2 months to START any kind of treatment? I just want to get this show on the road - nothing is going to get better till we start getting it done. And so he gets to sit here miserable in pain for another month just waiting...?