Look for posts by misskate, who had a total glossectomy and is thriving. In addition to providing ongoing support for many posters here, she wrote a blog of her experiences from diagnosis through the all-clear from her doctor 18 months later.

And I agree with Eric's recommendation that they seek a second opinion from a well-regarded comprehensive cancer center. Geography shouldn't necessarily dictate a treatment facility -- but if your friends would find cross-country travel difficult, the closest ones to Door County would be the Carbone CCC at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the Lurie CCC at Northwestern in Chicago, the University of Chicago CCC, the Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State in Detroit and the University of Michigan CCC in Ann Arbor. More information is here.

All of these have National Cancer Institute designation as a CCC (meaning they are on the cutting edge of cancer research); the Lurie CCC is also a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network -- an alliance of more than 20 of the nation's leading cancer centers that together publish the state-of-the-art annual cancer treatment protocols.