Hi Christine.
I have asked Tony who his specialist is in his thread. And I did read the above post from him.
After the 1st op. My sister was able to talk and eat almost 100% normal after only 3days. And we felt with time she would recover completely. But then the new lumps appeared and she had the second op so there was no time for speech therapy.
Currently her Tongue is sewn to her cheek to let the graft flap grow and will be detached next week. She is able to talk but it's like someone talking with a mouthfull of food. Until the Tongue is detatched from her cheek we don't know how what etc Dr ... did say that she may need speech therapy.

we are seeing an oncologist this week so that's one more for the list. and her gp has been very good too.
I can see that Tony, being treated in a hospital ( I wonder if he was a public or private patient) the team ( as such ) is in one place, whereas my sister specialist has his own practice and the oncologist we're seeing is also a private facility. I don't have any idea if one is better than the other.

I have a link to the facility. Should I post it here or go to the current treatment forum to get some thoughts!
Is this how many of you started out? It seemed simple enough when we found out. it's cancer but it's localised and it's a case of cutting it out. And from all the posts I've read here it just seem to get worse. I'm one of those ppl who want to know the stats so I can prepare myself mentally to help her through it.
Thanks for your advice guys.

The Royal Perth Hospital is well known in Perth. It's one of a few that has