Hi, sadly I am no new to forums , my husband has melanoma stage 4 and I have gained so much knowledge and strength from that forum. We just found out my brother in law has been diagnosed w oral cancer. So new , we still know so little. He sees oncologist today and more testing. What we know is 1.5 cm floor of mouth. Testing for nodal activity and any metastatis to othe areas. No staging yet. Frankly , the surgery to floor of mouth frightens me - with melanoma they take such wide excision so for clear margins. I pray results will show early stage. If so , is that typically surgery then potential chemo? Are the new immunology drugs so exciting now for melanoma also used for oral cancer?? What questions should they be asking oncologist? They are at Mass General. Any insight on surgery recovery and what eating/ talking is afterwards?


Thanks - sorry , I jam packed a lot into this introduction!

Rita