I am just starting radiation therapy, 35 treatments at the city of Hope, after surgery to remove an invasive squamous cell carcinoma from the right side of my mouth. It had invaded bone there, so it was stage 4. Didn't know about it until the end of November. Surgery was done at UCLA by a reconstructive cancer surgeon on Jan 20. Now, I am healed enough to get radiation. So I am a new survivor, I hope, of oral cancer. I hope to see some of you at the new support group for head and neck cancer survivors at the City of Hope in Duarte, CA. meeting tomorrow March 22, 2011.