Hello Minnie, Karen, Gary and Debbie,

Thanks for responding to me again. My mom will have give treatments of chemo and seven weeks of radiation (five days a week. They told her that IMRT was not used for her kind of cancer.) I believe it is the SCC cancer. She has melanoma also on her arm but it did nto spread. Thank God. It was a few years later she had gum cancer and then they said it was in her jaw bone. The doctor, head and neck specialist diagnosed her with this primary gum cancer that spread to her bone. Gary, They did not recommend rad or chemo and a year later almost to the day, she had cancer in her gums again close to where it was before, It had spread. Now, they are telling her to do chemo and rad! It makes me wonder WHY this was NOT suggested a year ago. They also told her even with radiation and chemo, she has a chance it could recur once again.

It just seems to me like the docs dont know too much about this cancer and my mom is acting as a guinnea pig, so to speak as to how to treat in the future. It really bothers me to see her in pain and having lost almost all her bottom teeth. I am scared. Can anyone recommend to me what I CAN DO to help her in this. Should I be preparing certain foods or protein mixures for her? Thanks again and God Bless
Stephany