My brother had the TORS done with the hope of having reduced radiation on the back end. This was absolutely outside the protocol at MD Anderson where they were recommending all radiation and chemo but his surgeon was able to prevail at the tumor board and that�s the way they went.
They were closing him up when the surgeon noticed a small stringer of material that turned out to be additional cancer that did not show up on the scans.
They had hoped to do 55 Gy. Of radiation after the surgery but after noticing the small stringer, they ended up doing the whole 70 Gy. That the rest of us have had. The tumor was just above the voice box about grape size.