Scott

Advice on non surgical TX: Get a second opinion before surgery preferably from a Comprehensive Cancer Center. I had stage IV base of tongue cancer with lymph node involvement yet radiation and chemo did work well enough at first to give me a full year of being cancer free. Sure they ended up doing the surgery after all when the cancer came back, but for many of OCF posters, radiation and chemo did the trick. It may be possible to do the surgery later if radiation and chemo don't work. Unfortunately there are no other real alternatives, just wishful thinking and scams.
Charm