My father age 90 has been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of buccal mucosa , ie cheek. there is ulcer inside and tumor outside which has increased to the size of tomato after biopsy (previously it was size of large grape) biopsy report says" infiltrating, moderately differentiated, keratinizing, squamous cell carcinoma"
consulted:
1 ent surgeon: ready to do 6 hr surgery but can not gurantee recovery from anesthesia and healing.
2: ent surgeon: get done limited cleaning but not complete treatment, which means not to track lymph nodes
3: ent surgeon: do nothing as whole process is very risky and there may be chance of going into coma due to age and angina and heart problems, he even said limited cleaning is also very much risky.
4: hospice: said in his experience such surgery bring no good result at this age.
please advise what I should do.
BB