Hi Brian, my 1st tratment were surgery with frozen biopsy to check malignancy. After that they made a full pathology test to find me millimeters. My lesion were 0.63 cm depth and then the doctor said I�d have partial neck dissection because with this depth i had 50/50 percent of it had spread.

And fortunately all 57 nodes were clean. 0/57 is my favorite number...

then after all this crazy period i was staged T1N0M0.

December, 2011 - T1N0M0 SSC Oral Tongue sugery (Dec 07, 2011). Partial glossectomy, primary closure. Selective Neck dissection, all 57 nodes free. 29 at diagnosis, no risk factors at all. No smoking, drinking and HPV negative. Can you explain? I can't.