Let me share one fact with you cancer can seed to other areas (I'm sure you know this) - usually with tongue cancer this is the nodes first. I had 2 cts and an MRI that said I only had the tumor in my tongue. I could feel a node pop up over a 5 week period between dx and surgery - the mri which was negative - was 3 weeks prior to surgery - - my dr. Had already decided to remove 40 nodes from my neck regardless of the scans - my post surgical pathology showed one node full of cancer and it had broken through the capsule - microscopic cancer can sit in the nodes for a while before progressing to a tumor state - and it's undetectable on a scan until its a certain size.

Hopefully this weeks meeting goes well, push them to move quickly an do mething.