Great news Adele! We share your relief and happy feelings. Today hubby had follow up visit with surgeon and learned pathology report of tissue removed during reconstructive surgery Oct. 17/07 is cancer free, also no evidence of recurrence on physical examination. What music to the ears those words are.
Joan

Caregiver to husband Dx. Stage 4 SCC of gingiva with 3 nodes pos. Partial mandiblectomy with bone graft from iliac crest Dec. 2006. IMRT x30, Cisplatin x3. Completed Tx. March 15, 2007. Osteonecrosis & removal of graft & plate Oct. 2007. Recurrence of SCC Dec. 2007. Deceased Jan. 17, 2008.