Rowena, your doctor is wrong. Surgery is not 100% successful. My father, at 80, was diabetic and had leukemia, which had been kept under control for 6 years with Gleevec. Then there came a small spot on his neck that would not heal. Went to the dermatologist who said--cancer. But it was small enough that he cut it out in his office, under local.
Sent the cancer away to the lab, put about 4 stitches in Dad's neck and home we went. There was much pain at the site for Dad, and the doctor had taken such a large chunk out-to be sure to 'get everything'--that Dad couldn't bend his neck. Finally in 10 days Dad went to get the stitches out, and everything looked fine. But the pain stayed and within just 3 or 4 weeks, another spot, in the same spot, returned. Went back and the doctor kept saying--"but, but, I got it all. The margins were perfectly clear." He even went and got out the lab report, and showed it to me. I never doubted his word, he was a good man and doctor. Still--nothing is 100%. There is no guarantee of anything, lab tests or no. Yep, the cancer spread and Dad passed away, in much pain, only 2 months later. I often wondered if I should have tried BS, but then, Dad wanted his doctor to take care of it. Samala, Renee
