Good luck with that surgery, it seems those having such surgery on this forum are having good luck with it. I just joined and dropped somehow right into this topic, which is probably appropriate for me too, since I was just diagnosed yesterday with a stage one tumor on the right side of my tongue. I came to this diagnosis through oral surgeons, who want to operate and take about 30% of my tongue and they seem to think reconstructive surgery would be necessary also, so naturally I have a lot of trepidation and questions about all of this. I would also like to get a second opinion, and would like to know if anyone has been treated with a linear accelerator INSTEAD of surgery for such a stage one tongue tumor? From Google-ing around a bit it seems this might have a slightly smaller 5 year survival rate, but I would not have to have an operation on my tongue in this case, I suppose. Anyone have a take on that?