Amy,

Welcome to the OCF forum. I'm sorry you have to be here -- especially to be in the position of joining on Christmas Day -- but you'll find a lot of support and help here. There are many of us who also ended up with SCC at a fairly early age without ever smoking, so we have a good sense of what you're feeling right now.

Take advantage of the wealth of information you can find about oral cancer on this site. It will help you gather questions you want to ask of your husband's medical team as you go along. It will also give you lots of good ideas about getting through the toughest parts of treatment. Feel free to post here as often as you need to get advice from others or just to vent.

Cathy


Tongue SCC (T2M0N0), poorly differentiated, diagnosed 3/89, partial glossectomy and neck dissection 4/89, radiation from early June to late August 1989