Patsy,
Hello & I am sorry to hear of your trouble. I just wanted to chime in & say my friend had a very large tumor on his tonsil. The doctors told him the same thing that it would be too disfiguring to do surgery first. They would try to shrink it with radiation & chemo then maybe talk surgery. The rad tx & chemo completely eradicated the tumor no surgery was needed. The pet scan showed him cancer free in Nov. 04.Hopefully this will be the case with Bruce. God bless! Maureen