Hi. I am a new user. I have Stage 1 buccal cancer. I found out through a biopsy of a cheek lesion which would not heal. PET scan shows that my neck is clear. I will need a re-section of the lesion area. But the surgeons I am speaking to are split on whether to do a neck dissection to remove some lymph nodes.

One says that based on his experience, buccal cancer is aggressive and I should not take any risks and have x number of lymph nodes removed. The other surgeon says that this really looks like Stage 1. If nothing looks different during the lesion resection, he is inclined to leave lymph nodes alone and take another scan 3 months from now and follow up with regular scans.

I would appreciate thoughts on this.