It depends if further treatment will be necessary. What do the doctors say? What is the T stage? That matters, as does clear margins, extracapsular spread, other adverse featurees, like perineural, lymphovascular invasion, close margins. I had close margins last May from a neck dissection, with adverse features, and needed chemo and radiation, minimum, and less than a month, cancer went to the elliptical layer of the skin. I wound up having a resection with a flap, high dose IORT radiation, and chemoradiation. They are not going to substitute PET scans for treatment of cancer, If it's needed. Good luck.


10/09 T1N2bM0 Tonsil
11/09 Taxo Cisp 5-FU, 6 Months Hosp
01/11 35 IMRT 70Gy 7 Wks
06/11 30 HBO
08/11 RND PNI
06/12 SND PNI LVI
08/12 RND Pec Flap IORT 12 Gy
10/12 25 IMRT 50Gy 6 Wks Taxo Erbitux
10/13 SND
10/13 TBO/Angiograph
10/13 RND Carotid Remove IORT 10Gy PNI
12/13 25 Protons 50Gy 6 Wks Carbo
11/14 All Teeth Extract 30 HBO
03/15 Sequestromy Buccal Flap ORN
09/16 Mandibulectomy Fib Flap Sternotomy
04/17 Regraft hypergranulation Donor Site
06/17 Heart Attack Stent
02/19 Finally Cancer Free Took 10 yrs