 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Debjoe:
I am very sorry to hear of your loss. Losing a child must be a truly awful thing. Its a tragedy having to lose two members of your family. They were both very young.
Doctors claim oral cancer isnt anything to do with heredity. I do not know of any studies that were done of this. In my family nobody had any type of cancer before.
This site is mainly full of patients and their caregivers. We are lucky enough to have 2 dentists that were oral cancer patients who stop in and help out. There are even a member who is in a research field that was a former patient also.
Please feel free to ask questions.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
