 "OCF Down Under, Kiwi" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 644 Likes: 1 | Twelve years later a recurrence. That's terribly bad luck.
The surgery is doable though as I've had the forearm flap procedure twice. Hemiglossectomy allows speech and eating to proceed in a near normal manner. It's no picnic but after a couple of weeks on both occasions I was feeling well again. The worst part for me in the tongue surgery was the uncomfortable tracheotomy. On a more positive note, you get intensive nursing care with a trache and it's all over in a week or so.
Wishing you well.
1996, ovarian cancer surgery + cisplatin and taxol.
September, 2007, SCC of left lateral tongue. Excision.
October, 2009 recurrence in scar tissue, T1NOMO. Free flap surgery from left wrist - neck dissection. 63 year old New Zealander. No chemo, no RT.
February, 2014. New primary in left buccal mucosa. Marginal mandibulectomy, neck dissection, right arm free forearm flap. T1N0M0 but third occurrence and some areas of concern: RT started 8 April and finished 19 May.
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