Tuffy if would be really great if you would reply to this - 13 years later!! It is 2019 now and if you reply, you beat the cancer, or at least you got this far.
Last week I was given similar news - the Basal Cell cancer on my face isn't over with one surgery - the pathologist is now calling it "Infiltrating Basal Cell Carcinoma" - the original tumor had extensions heading off in all directions - three 'arms', to be exact.
One branch is close to the OPTIC NERVE so that is scary to have a scalpel near that nerve!!