Each of us has a different disease presentation and what one person had vs another is not an apples and apples kind of thing. So some people have radiation and chemo and no surgery, some have surgery only, some have all three. It is so much a function of how advanced your disease is, and where it is located, and how invasive it has become. So the answer is Douglas had no surgery, but that answer really doesn't mean anything to anyone else but him.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.