hi i am new to this site, this site was recommended by a member from the CSN through American Cancer Society.. my father was DX with Stage 4 tongue/floor of mouth in February of this year. In March he did 2 rounds of induction chemo, then started his 35 rad treatments along with chemo three times during that time.. he commpleted his treatments in june and we had our first biopsies done in august and they came back clear! dad was on his road to recovery, so we thought :-(.. about 4 weeks ago he started experincing that awful pain in his mouth, which we were not sure if it was because of radiation or not.. so about a week and half ago ENT did biopsies of floor of mouth and sure enough it was back! so now ENT told us his only ooption is to have that surgery where hey will remove portion of lower jaw and replace that with musc le from stomache.. well they will put a plate in and cover the plate with skin from stomach....also remove 1/3 of his tongue, and do a radical neck dissection.. of course news was devasting as you all know but we were thankful to have an option..he said he thinks he can save base of tongue and voicebox. ENT also told us that if he hd to remove the base of tolngue that the voicebox would have to come out too.. has anyone ever heard of that?

any and all input wouild be great! and congrats to those survivors of this vicious disease!