I too am glad that you have found this early, but please insure that you have had a COMPLETE work up including CT's and MRI's with contrast of your entire head and neck area. These things may show nothing, or they may show things that he may not consider in his surgical procedure. I don't wish to spook you, I just want you to be over and done with things this go around, and not be looking at this again a year from now.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.