Hi all
Long time no post! Hope you're all smiling more often than not.

This post has got me thinking a little. Maybe cause i like to drink (a little)!

If you are to get a recurrence, it is because either your surgery (if thats all you had like me) missed a tiny bit of cancerous cells, or because your chemo/rads (if you had either of them) did not wipe out one or more cancerous cells...Therefore they will eventually mutliply again? What i write next assumes this logic is right, so someone maybe get in and correct me early before i misinform the good people on this forum!

So, if surgery/chemo/rads all worked and there are no cancerous cells in your body - then having a drink or three once or twice a week shouldnt put you in a high risk bracket for getting cancer - as Dave said earlier (Hi Dave, by the way!) "if everyone got cancer from drinking alcohol...."

And if your treatments didnt work 100% effectively, wouldnt you get a recurrence regardless of whether you drink alcohol?

Happy to delete this post if it turns out to be very poorly informed, as dont want someone to be searching for the answer sometime down the track and see my post and inadvertently think its correct!!

Cheers!!
jon


stage 2 scc in left oral tongue. 32 at dx
removed 21/12/09 plus left neck dissection and upper arm flap.
clear pathology 24/12/09
non-smoker
active footballer/surfer
social drinker
lives stress-free!