One of my cousins. 65 years old, is going to have an surgical operation to cut off a cancer grown on jawbone skin at a university hospital. As he has been a bachelor and has no family except a few cousins, I accepted to be a guarantor for him. A few month ago, he felt aches on his right wisdom teeth and was told extraction of the teeth was necessary. But his dentist introduced him to a dean of faculty of university because it was very difficult to do the extraction by himself. At the university, the operation was finished smoothly. But he felt something wrong on his lower jaw and went to the doctor of university hospital. He found out a cancer grown on jawbone by a microscope test. The doctor told his patient directly that he had a cancer and a surgical operation was necessary. The cousin called me and asked to become guarantor for him.
In the afternoon, I met his doctor together with the patient at the hospital, which was only five years old and very clean, a nice looking one.
The doctor explained us very clearly what he had done through today. He did not only what I wrote in the above but he checked the patient thoroughly by using a CT Scan resulting in a discovery of cancer on right neck lymph node. But he could not find more than that. He recommended us to have a cut off operation of a right half of jaw bone and muscles for it. After the extradition, he will put a titan bar for connecting the remaining jaw to right side cheek bone. The hospital will train the patient becoming accustomed to artificial jaw but it would be difficult to use jaw just like before operation. Furthermore, the patient has to select foods for eating. When I asked him whether there was the other ways not relying on surgical operation but using vaccine or something like that, he replied vaccine was totally ineffective because the cancer grew and spread already. He said also there was no risk for becoming dementia. The patient might feel fierce ache when he spend without having operation.
On Monday, the dean of faculty himself will do the operation, the doctor added.
The final decision was up to the patient. He accepted the doctor's proposal without any hesitation. He thought it was quite lucky for him to get the operation by a distinguished surgeon at one of the best equipped hospitals.