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Joined: May 2008 Posts: 357 | Hi, Nichole -
My mother and others used to repeat the old wive's tale that surgery *and* biopsies would spread cancer. That was because people waited too long to get diagnosed and the cancer had already spread because they waited too long. Your doctor won't know what you have and how to treat it without a biopsy - please don't let the old wive's tales scare you. Get the biopsy. Soon.
Marlene
Marginal mandibulectomy 6/17/08 resulted in DX of Stage I SCC - gingiva (3 mm) right mandible, buccal side. Clear margins. Occasional social drinker. Smoked last cigarette in 1979. Clear pet: 12/08; 7/20/09. Yay!
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