Reoccurence!!The elephant in the room for every oral cancer patient.Something every one lives with day to day.Reocurrence rates in this particular cancer seem to be much higher than in others so in a forum solely for OC you are going to see a lot of reocurrence stories.You haven't received all the treatments available to you,so i am sure they will come up with a plan,and you can have surgery again combined with chemotherapy and maybe even something like cyber knife rads.Nearly every day sees new things being tried and proven,so this is just another leg of your journeey to being cancer free.It sucks barry but you can do it,just try to stay positive and keep your fighting spitit up.

love Liz


Liz in the UK

Husband Robin aged 44 years Dx 8th Dec 2006 poorly differentiated SCC tongue with met to neck T1N2cM0 Surgery and Radiation.Finished TX April 2007
Recurrence June/07 died July 29th/07.

Never take your eye off the ball, it may just smack you in the mouth.