Hi,
Thanks for the reply. My father in law's PET scan came back negative- so the Merkel Cell cancer has not spread to any organs. Since my last post, he saw an oncologist & is probably going to proceed with some chemotherapy. He wants to be proactive & the oncologist agrees. I hope that he never goes back to the internist who gave us the bad advice and said "we aren't going to treat this". My father in law did end up needig a second surgery on the original site on his scalp- that's actually happening today as I write this. We're hoping they'll get all the cancer this time. He may need a skin graft after this- they're going to decide today if he needs it or not. If so, that should be in 2-3 weeks, but first, they'll need to check the biopsy to make sure they got it all.