So did your HPV tests results ever come back? I am surprised they are doing surgery rather that rad and chemo....I have never heard of TORS...so hopefully it doesn't give the complications of normal surgery to remove.

Glad they give you the good news. I think you already had your surgery...but hope you talked to doc about surgical removal of that area of your tongue and the lifelong complications it would cause vs the complications of rad/chemo.

Hope it went well for you!


25/female at diagnosis
Dx;stage 3 SCC tongue 03/25/2010
Surgery 04/13/2010
Trach,ng tube, peg feeding tube
Hemiglossectomy, right side neck dissection, 40 lymph nodes removed. Free-Flap transplant to tongue.
30 rounds IMRT ended July 15,2010