Concerneddaughter

I'm so sorry to hear the news of your fathers recurrence. I feel your pain believe me. I'm a concerned daughter also only its my mother instead. After reading your post it almost sounds like the same thing that has happened to my mother. In my mothers case she had surgery and half her jaw removed in March 2014 recovered and completed her 35 RADS in June 2014 . Her ear began to hurt so CT and MRI showed recurrence in the first week of Sept. 2014 only 6 months after her 1st surgery. So a second "urgent"surgery took place two weeks later to remove the recurrence.

In the back of my mind I'm thinking maybe Chemo should have been ordered with the RADS from the beginning and maybe the cancer wouldn't have come back so soon. But I guess I wont talk about the should've ,could've ,would've . We will just look forward from here. So as of today my mother is in the hospital on her second day of Chemo "Cisplatin + 5-FU" and we are praying it works for her.

Good Luck to you and your family

Heidi