Mayo is one of the best in the country for this type of cancer....if you really feel you want to go with another doc's opinion, I would truly think about that and hard.

I would have gone to the Mayo here if I could have, but I would at least research the other docs credentials...like how many of these surgeries they have done, and the outcomes of those(rate of infections and success rates of the surgery they have done)

If after looking at all that, you still choose to go that route, then ok. Best of luck!


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