My wife has low grade MEC primary base of tongue. Treated w/ rad and cisplatin 2 years ago. Primary is "dead" now. Most recent CT showed two growing nodes on one side of her neck, so her doctor recommends modified radical neck dissection. Her doctor is a well-known ENT cancer surgeon that left his position at a major academic medical center a few years ago for private hospital in same city. His new hospital does not have a comprehensive cancer center. So we wonder how important that would be for post-operative care after the neck dissection. We could go to a comp cancer center, but we don't know the surgeons there. Are there commonly severe difficulties after the neck dissection? I'm under the impression that it will not be as bad as 6 weeks of radiation and chemo, but maybe I'm trying to find a silver lining here.
I'm new to the forum and posted this last night in the General section, but see that it probably belongs here.
Thanks to all.