Mark,

You really scare me with those statistics. I'm pretty sure you have followed my moms story. My heart is in my stomach right now......I don't really think that my moms recurrance was a recurrance but an occult cancer that grew out of an unclean margin but her ENT says its a recurrance. Does that mean her chances of beating this thing are that low?????? Some reassurance here would be helpful.. She has been battling pre cancerous squamous cell for over 10 years now. I thought it was luekeplakia but from what her ENT says it was dysplacia then pre cancerous squamous cell and in April turned to invasive squamous cell stage 1. Her recurrance was very small less than a cm and less than a mm deep not in the bone or anything. I am going with the thought that everybodys case is different and you cannot put statistics on something like this????

K,
I apologize for getting off of the subject and taking this thread somewhere else I just wanted Mark to know what stats I was referring too.

Thank you,
Danielle