Hello Teresa welcome to the forum. I am also new and I support my mother-in-law who had oral cancer. She was first diagnosed in March 2010 with tongue cancer and she had surgery to remove 1/2 of her tongue. She had no chemo and radiation at that time.

May 2012 she noticed a lesion on her gums which she totally ignored due to her cataract surgery in June and July. August she went to the dentist and he referred her again to the oncologist. September 2012 the oncologist diagnosed her with gum cancer and after a CT scan they of the head they was cancer on her jawbone. She will be having surgery October 10, 2012 to remove her upper jaws. After which she will have 33 radiation treatments. She will also have chemotherapy since they saw nodules on her lungs.

Best wishes to your husband and your family, my thoughts and prayers are with you. Ina