Hi Cheryl,
Thank you, I appreciate your comments and fully understand the vagaries of this wretched disease. No HPV, non smoker and small drinker, healthy lifestyle( sounds like an oxymoron when I have had cancer). I think the surgeon felt confident to the extent that 3 PET. scans that lit up at the centre if the jaw bone dissection were dismissed as scar tissue, fat necrosis etc and didn't know any better to challenge that. I would now but that's only after things have gone pear shaped and I realise how assertive you need to be at a time when you are vulnerable and often not well and at a serious disadvantage information wise. It's a big ask. Really appreciate your contribution to the conversation.
big ups to all of us who are working through it and surviving.

Kind regards
Penny