Hello everybody,

thank you for the warm welcome! I have already received very valuable information in the forum section "oral cancer recurrence"! Great! And: How good to have internet access in my hospital room!

@Brian Hill: Thank you for mentioning Axel Kirsch, it may be a good idea to chose him for supervision when I will be back!

@Lostpassword: Yes, it is surely a very good one, working in closest collaboration with the german cancer research center ( http://www.dkfz.de/en/index.html )

@Pete D (and also Brian): Yes, it is really a small world! I do work in S-Vaihingen, at the university, and I know the Patch Barracks as well (only from the outside)! Maybe you made one of the car dealers at the corner happy when returning to the U.S.? (I personally have a different taste and drive a Michigan horse *g*)

@davidcpa: The thing started opposite to one of the last bottom grinder, which had to be extracted. In order to calm the irritation after the extraction, I carefully flushed my mouth frequently with a popular germicide (german brand name: Chlorhexamed) which contains Chlorhexidinbis(D-gluconat) (I hope this is comprehensible also in English). Soon I realized a swelling at the tongue, but I guessed that it simply came from the fact that the whole area was irritated, also due to the broken tooth. 2 weeks later (February 5th) I was at the dentist again for another work, and he said that I am going to ruin my whole mucosa and that I shall immediately stop to apply the germicide, I shall simply let everything in peace. Also during another appointment, February 9th, he said the same. I did that, applied only mouthwash (Listerine and others) several times per day, and also camomille tea, and it seemed (!) that the swelling gets less, although I wondered how an irritation can cause a swelling of 5 millimeters or more. However, after middle of February I got more and more concerned because the swelling didn�t get better, but even worse again, and on March 3rd I went to the dentist again and this time he urgently sent me to an oral surgeon for a better diagnosis, and this was the first time at all I was confronted with cancer.