Brian and kelly thanks a lot and this is an excellent forum. I am still learning about this procedures.And David to your question, yes my dad was a tobacco user and he was a smoker too.
I have another question. Now, 10% of my Dad's tongue is removed and also the affected Node was removed. So, what will the Radiation target now ? ..there is no tumour there anymore?.Could it be the cells sorrounding the tissue where the node was affected to prevent future recurrence?. And also the doctors are taking about targetting on both sides of the neck with Radiation and a Chemo Blast of 3 cycles. Is it necessary to target both sides of the neck or only one side where the tumour was there ?. Is this the standard process everywhere?.
Also, they are planning to start doing a baseline MRI/CT Scan next week, which is 3 weeks after surgery , won't it show false inflamations at the place where the surgery is done? .Is technology so sofisticated to distinguish
between false inflamations and cancerous cells? ..They are not doing PET Scans..rather relying on CT /MRI scans.