Thanks for all your comments. You've all been through that first-diagnosis stomach churn, & your comments lift my spirit.
I am having a ct scan and another read on the biopsy...something didn't look right to the ent surgeon. He is not quick with the knife & am glad.

Marlene

Last edited by Brian Hill; 05-10-2008 05:05 PM.
Marginal mandibulectomy 6/17/08 resulted in DX of Stage I SCC - gingiva (3 mm) right mandible, buccal side. Clear margins. Occasional social drinker. Smoked last cigarette in 1979. Clear pet: 12/08; 7/20/09. Yay!