Hello Amylea... welcome to OCF but sorry you and your father are having to deal with this awful disease. This forum helped me so much be a better support person to my aunt. (my closest living relative). Bless you.

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Aunt diag. 2/4/10 with SCC Stage I/II on left side of tongue. Surgery 2/19/10 part. gloss./neck diss. on left side/free flap from chest muscle. TI/II,NO,MO. Clear margins with perineural invasion. Started rads 4/8/10 - 35 treatments, finished 5/26/10.