 Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 94 | Hello, and welcome to OCF, there are tons of good info and support here.
As you can see from my signature line, I have had exactly the same surgery - robotic tonsil removal and selective neck dissection. There were done at the same time. While there was some serious pain afterwards, with the help of pain meds it wasn't too bad. It took me about 10 days to start feeling pretty decent.
In terms or rads and chemo after the surgery, the doctors recommendations will depend on the results of the surgery, such as the margins of he primary tumor, how many nodes are positive, is there in extra capsular leakage from those nodes etc. In my case they recommended rads only.
Oh, and I am another one without a caregiver, so it can be done, not that I would recommend it to anyone.
Best of luck!
36, female, left tonsil HPV+ SCC, T2N1
8/28/13 SCC in left tonsil
9/12/13 surgery:TORS and selective neck dissection (levels II-IV), 23 nodes removed
9/18/13 post surgery biopsy: 2mm clear margins, a 7mm lymph node positive in level IV, no ECL
10/28/13 rad begins, 30 treatments, tomotherapy
12/09/13 radiation ends!
2/10/14 papillary thyroid cancer
2/26/14 PET shows clear neck other than thyroid cancer, but with high uptake in an ovarian cyst
2/27/14 thyroidectomy
3/5/14 pelvic ultrasound
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