Suzanne
Fox Chase should be good. Are you seen by a team or just one physician?
Regarding the recurrences: The question is then are these actually new lesion or were they already there before and just not yet visible?
If they are not brand new, then radiation might have worked and given you a "clean slate" This especially, since with radiation you can treat a much wider field.

I would definitely get another opinion from a team (including RO, MO and surgeon)

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Partial glossectomy (25%) anterior tongue. 4/6/07/. IMRT start @5/24/07 (3x) Erbitux start/end@ 5/24/07. IMRT wider field (30x) start 6/5/07. Weekly cisplatin (2x30mg/m2), then weekly carbo- (5x180mg/m2). End of Tx 19 July 07.