The doctors told me to massage and rub my neck with Vitamin E oil to help keep it soft and to help break up the scar tissue. My neck is really hard and stiff but I'm very used to it now. I still massage it but not as often as before.

SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.