James,

"Everything seemed OK until Dec. 23, 2003 (I remember exactly when I first realized I could have a recurrence). I noticed a small "place near the bottom part of front of tongue and my wife noticed my breath was similar to that when I had my first SCC."

I too had noticed a very distinguishable and quite nasty breath smell before my husband was diagnosed and for a few weeks into treatment. The smell is now gone. I was wondering if that smell was related to the cancer myself.