Hi Everyone
Well the cancer free diagnosis we got on March 21st maybe short lived. On the last two PET/CT's in Jan. and Mar. an area lite up in the base of tongue area that our Dr. (after scoping himself) and the PET reader felt was an "irritated area" but would be watched. He is scheduled for a PET/CT & MMR for June.

Now a small pimple that within two weeks looked like a boil on his neck that we had removed by Mayo dermotology has turned out to be "invasive SCC" and needs further surgery to remove. Since the biopsy showed it was already "invasive" and it had just appeared two weeks earlier and is the same cancer type as Emmett's tongue cancer, we decided to let our oral surgeon know of this news and we are glad we did. He expressed concern that there could be a chance that Emmett's tongue SCC could have spread to his skin and wants to rule it out by talking with the pathologiest reading the biopsy. So we are now waiting to hear back from him. I asked how this site did not show up on the PET/CT done the day before this biopsy and he said that unfortunity the PET does not show up very small sites, which I take as good news, can not be that invasive then. Just makes me nervious.... We are scheduled to have the Mois surgery next Tuesday at Mayo. The dermotologist encouraged us to remove it as soon as possible, not waiting until our next visit in June. Hopefully this is just a small blimp in the journey and Emmett will be cancer free...again.