My cousin has been going through this recently. He had to have most of his cheek removed from cancer in his mouth. He had "luckily" accidentally injured his cheek minorly at work, which then wouldn't heal, which caused the doctors to find the cancer.

My understanding is that they've replaced the cheek with a deep piece of tissue from his thigh, and then replaced the deep tissue on his thigh with thin tissue from his forearm.

He started chemo this past Friday. I believe it's to try to ensure that if any cancer spread further it'll be more effectively killed off and won't return as easily. He'll be getting doses 5 days a week until the new year.

It's pretty rough to see him go through it.