Thanks Christine and David, I very much appreciate your supportive words (and actions in being so active in this site). I'm at Univ of Michigan Cancer Center, as I was last time, and have a lot of faith in the team, they seem to do more than their share of publishing in the field. Still up in the air which way to proceed, but I'm hoping as you said that this is a completely new tumor and not a recurrence of the last one, which may keep the non-surgical option open, though it's a rob-peter-to-pay-paul sort of thing, isn't it? Lose my tongue now thru surgery, or lose my jaw and tongue long term due to twice being severely radiated? Leaning toward keeping the tongue as long as possible...

Thanks again. Good luck to everyone facing this.