Palm tree I read your post but forgot to answer your question about Rad seed implants,, sorr about that.. Implants are done this way, They put you in a coma and then take you to the OR and go up thru your chin and make some holes in youe tongue. THen take you to radiology and Xray where the made to holes to make sure they are right. Then back to the OR where they put Radiation Seed Implants up thru thr holes and insert the Rad Seeds. Then you are put inside a lead shield , because you are radioactive and then put in Isolation and no one except A nurse checks on you for supposedly 3 days of the coma. After the 3 days you are taken to a room to wake and recover. I was out for 4 mot=re days and I guess they thought I was going to die. I was readied for an extended care facility for the 8th day but woke up on the 7th one. The implants and mt ongue give me more problems than any of the surgeries or biopsies 2 years later. I have no idea if it helps kill the Cancer, but I am alive and smiling thru it.