Bob, Welcome back. Can't give you definitive recommendation, but I can tell you that I had rad/chemo/surgery to defeat my cancer. It was tonsil and not tongue, but when the radical neck dissection was performed after rad/chemo, it was sure good news to hear that the lab pathology report was that the lymph nodes removed during surgery had zero cancer cells left. Rad/chemo had destroyed all of the cancer I had in the lymph nodes as well as the tissue around the tonsil where the primary site was. I would have been very disapointed with myself if I had not done everything I could to kill the cancer and it came back. Will pray God will guide your decision to the best for your situation.