Thank you everyone for the advice and he is going through Chemo this week. This is to keep the tumor at bay while the surgeons schedule a date and we do all the pre-op visits / tests. He is responding really good to this new "cocktail" low side effects so far and the tumor is visibly smaller after 2 treatments. Two more this week....Looks like surgery will take place in about 3 weeks if all goes as planned. We really trust and like our doctor's here (we are in san antonio,tx) but i can't help but think that maybe we should go 2hrs away to MD Anderson and just see what they say. I have suggested it but not sure if my FIL wants to make the trip.
He has an appointment tomorrow with the plastic surgeon which I am anxious for because I am sure there is equal risk in reconstruction like there is with resection. Thanks again for the posts!!