[quote] HOLY BATMAN!!! He has a hole in his tongue! Has anyone gone through that, is that the treatment that is most effective or is there another avenue that we should be looking into. [/quote]

Is is possible the hole is where the cancer used to be and you just have to wait for it to heal and just manage the pain and keep infection out? Did the doctor look and see the hole for him or herself?

Alex has a "shelf" at the back of his throat where his cancer was. It has healed over but the physical deformity (sorry don't know how else to describe it) will always be there ready to choke him when food gets stuck there.