Jeff,

Just for your information, my husband used to smoke about 3 packs of cigarettes per day. He quit on 9/5/06, and was diagnosed with cancer on 9/12/06. He already did have the painful sore on this tongue when he quit. He also quit drinking about 20 years ago and he used to do a lot of that too. His oncologist told us that 95% of head and neck cancer victims smoked

Barbara S
C/G to Michael age 64, stage 1 base of tongue SC cancer and a stage one for a couple lymph nodes, diagnosed 09/12/06, IMRT radiation 10/24/06 to 12/05/06 , last PET / CT scan 11/7/11 - still cancer free!!!