UPDATE

[williamlayton]

My son in law, Paul martinez had seven + hours of surgery yesterday at Houston's MD Anderson hospital.
About three weeks ago he discovers a lump on his jaw. By the time he saw an Oncologist at MD Anderson it was the size of a small grapefruit.
A needle biopsy was negative but the Oncologist was not sure that it was a good biopsy because of the size and, at any rate it needed removing.
They cut his jaw bone and seperated the jaw to get at the tumor---removing all four wisdom teeth in the process. At least he was out for the wisdom teeth---I wasn't for mine.
The surgeon said, guardedly, that the tumor appeared clean but another biopsy was was done.
He will be in the hospital for a week.
Hopefully the tumor is benine.
Blessings 

[Mohawk]

  Good to here, William. Let us know of the biopsy. 

[Spanky]

Prayers sent William.
Let us know about his progress.


Spanky

[Siskiyou]

Prayers and thoughts are with him.  Rather suspect his face will be swollen for sometime.  He was wise to get it taken care of quickly.

[ms]

COOL 

[Tommyt]

My Prayers
I just came upon this post
Has there been an update ?
God Bless
tommyt

[Oldshooter]

Yep , missed this one, hope all goes well William. You and yours are in the prayers.

[Brett]

Prayers going out to him.  I pray that we soon find a cure for all cancers.  There is probably not one of us here who has not been personally effected either directly or threw a close friend or relative by this dreaded disease.  All you ever hear about is AIDS but the number of people effected by AIDS is minuscule compared to the number effected by cancer.   If I'm not mistaken the latest statistic is something like one in four people will get some form of cancer during their lifetime. 

[Oldshooter]

Yep, sad to say if you live long enough it wont be "if" you get cancer it will be when you get it!

[DalesCarpentry]

I hope for a speedy recovery. He will be in my thoughts and prayers. Dale

[williamlayton]

I hope they have the biopsy reports tomorrow.
He may come home by tuesday or wednesday.
Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers.
Blessings

[45-70.gov]

Prayers going out to him.  I pray that we soon find a cure for all cancers.  There is probably not one of us here who has not been personally effected either directly or threw a close friend or relative by this dreaded disease.  All you ever hear about is AIDS but the number of people effected by AIDS is minuscule compared to the number effected by cancer.   If I'm not mistaken the latest statistic is something like one in four people will get some form of cancer during their lifetime. 

if  i am   not mistaken  the average person gets  cancer 4 to 6  times iin  their  life  and  never  know  it

half of all  men WILL  get prostate cancer that live  to age  70

not  to say  the above  post  is wrong......1  in 4  are  probly  diagnosed

it  is a bad  thing  my  mother had  it  twice and was  cured both  times....my  uncles weren't so kuchy

 she  just had her  80th  birthday  and  going  strong.....will  going  good


we  can  hope for the best.....probabilities  are  with  him  i think