Hi, I joined here just this week and have a zillion questions. Caregiver to my husband who has BOT SCC T2 Stage 4, HPV+ and left LN's affected. He's just started RT this week and had 2nd Cisplatin. We had choice of Robotic Surgery to remove tongue tumor and same time surgery to remove affected LN's. Surgeon said he would have to have RT after anyway with 50/50 chance of Chemo depending on Pathology report. So we thought if he had to have RT and Chemo anyway why go through the trauma of surgery as well? Doc said both choices (Surgery +RT and poss Chemo, or no surgery and RT + Chemo) would have same results. We asked Doc if the RT would be less if he had surgery and Doc said only a little. So we chose RT + Chemo. We are still worried that the amount of RT he is getting, 1X daily 6X wk X 7 wks is too much. I noticed that most people here have had surgery so is that the best way to go and does it have a better outcome?
Thanks.