Thanks Laura, When you say small salivary gland, do you mean minor or is small something else. Is it a part of the major salivary gland? I have never heard of that before. My moms dr. felt her cancer was contained too. She had surgery about a month ago but the pathologist was not happy with the margins and she is going again for surgery tomorrow to remove more. My moms dr never even did a pet scan or an mri. (which my mom was thrilled with because she is clostrophobic. (sp?) He is convinced that it is contained in this area. Also, he was against doing radiation. So may people have told me she should go for a second opinion but we are really happy with the dr and have to just trust that he is doing the right thing.

It is ashame you can't see your original doctor. My mom and I laugh. The dr could say just about anything and we would be like "ok, thanks, that sounds great". He is just so nice and his confidence in the situation has really put us at ease.