Hi, I am new here. My mum was diagnosed with oral cancer stage 1 in her cheek lining (right side) back in January 2009. She is over at UCSF and was scheduled for surgery as soon as the could fit her in, which was 6 weeks later. They removed the cancer from the cheek, 20 lymph nodes and a small section of her jaw.

One of the lymph nodes contained cancer, the rest did not. Besides that the doctor said he would have prefered that the margins were wider on her test results. Radiation is an option, but the tumor board did not advise it based on her results. I am so worried and confused and in desperate need to find some answers. My main question what is the likelihood as the cancer spread to one lymph node that it could spread to somewhere else in the body?

Thanks for your help.

Nina