OVERWHELMED!! Bless u Brian. Maybe my own insecurties will give u some additional ideas for this undertaking. My time line: Initial Byospy, 3/22/06, Diagnosis-3/27/06, Surgery-3/30/06. Stage 1, tumor base of tongue, all lower teeth in front removed along with bone down to floor of mouth, tumor and bottom of tongue showing cancers removed out to good margins, floor of mouth cleaned and graft done to base of tongue and floor of mouth.

Feel rather inadquate as to what to do next. Want a copy of pathologists and surgeons reports for myself and too possibly share with another RO. The RO my surgeon send me to, in the middle of our session, asked, what size tumor was removed. Shouldn't he have been better prepared b 4 he interviewed me? The more I think about this the more I am appalled. Anyway, a guide as to the steps to take and a timeline would have been helpful to me.

Not to brow beat RO, however he did state also that oral cancers are "VERY RARE" in non smokers.This is not my impression. Little late now, but I did throw my smokes down for good after a lifelong cigarette habit.

Maybe my own inadaquacies and insecurties will give ya'll some additional ideas for this undertaking. Just rattleing, Papa