The people that have the best long term results have multidisciplinary treatments. Of course this is dependent on the staging of your disease and where it is located. Radiation wouldn't be used often in a very early find of a carcinoma in situ on the mobile tongue for instance, but would be used on a later stage cancer. But you haven't said anything about your staging or your cancer's location. I would also be concerned with the risk factors that brought the person to the disease and if that was tobacco and if the risk factor was still engaged in. There are many things that determine whether or not someone needs radiation in addition to a surgical removal of the immediate lesion.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.