As you may or may not be aware, Dad recently had a crown put in. Since then, his jaw has been hurting. Dad told his MD Anderson doctors about his jaw and they honestly didn’t think it was related to his esophagus cancer. However, they went ahead and did some test on his jaw area just to be on the safe side. The other day, they did a biopsy of the lymph node on Dad’s jaw. The results came back today that he has malignant cancer in the jaw area. They are the squamous cells, which are the same cells of his esophagus cancer.
This new finding of cancer will most likely post pone his treatment because he has to get approval of a dentist to do radiation in the jaw area. If I understanding what Mom told me correctly, if Dad has dental work done in a certain amount of time period after treatment, he could mess up his jaw / teeth as a whole. So, it’s very important that Dad has healthy teeth, since he can’t have any dental work done for X amount of time. We have many questions with very little answers. Dad and mom has to go down and personally talk to Dad’s MD Anderson doctor and find out what needs to be done next.
Besides finding out the results of the biopsy, Dad also had a CAT scan done today. We should know the results by Tuesday. As always, please continue to pray for Dad to be healed.