Mark, I`m going to totally agree with you here...I try to be really careful about what I say from a medical point, even as a health professional. I can only speak about oral cancer from Packer`s life. Case in point, his neck also got rock hard 5 years ago with radiation, that`s when I researched side effects...found imformation about a certain drug that was being used experimentally to increase blood flow to the area, it worked like a charm, but looking back, when he was rediagnosed, our doc said they had never gotten all the cancer in the first place, and i don`t think I helped anything by increasing the blood supply.............so, I try to speak from my personal experience, and not advocate anything but getting the best damned docs you can find...........Dee