Amen Jerry! I was diagnosed with an aggressive non-Hodgkins lymphoma at age 28, borderline ovarian cancer at age 42 and now oral cancer at age 45. I don't think I'll ever know what caused any of them, ever! But what I can do is take the lessons I've learned from all of this and get out there and live my life as best I can, choose to be healthy, eat right and exercise and not worry myself about things I can't change. Life is better this way and I am so much happier.


Stage IV SCC lt lateral tongue, surgery 5/19/08 (partial gloss/upper neck dissection left side/radial free flap reconstruction) IMRT w/weekly Cisplatin & Erbitux 6/30/08, PEG 1 6/12/08 - out 7/14 (in abdominal wall, not stomach), PEG 2 7/23/08 - out 11/20/08, Tx done 8/18/08
Second SCC tumor, Stage 1, rt mobile tongue, removed 10/18/2016, right neck dissection 12/9/2016
Third SCC tumor, diagnosed, 4/19/2108, rt submandibular mass, HPV-, IMRT w/ weekly Cisplatin, 5/9 - 6/25/2018, PEG 3 5/31/2018