Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Sid welcome to OCF! Glad you have found this site to help you and your father. Surgery could be very involved depending on the exact tumor location and size. Please understand everyone is different and will respond in their own way to treatments, surgeries, etc. What may be mild to one could be devastating to another. My last surgery was much worse than what I experienced with chemo and radiation.
Hopefully your father will get treated by a top doctor and be able to easily get thru this and move on to have many good years ahead.
Best wishes! ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive |