I'm having a first consult this friday for possible/likely near total glossesctomy and...incidentally my larynx feels horrible as I can swallow but it does hurt. My tongue and mandible are filled with a flattened tennis ball sized tumor. Multiple nodes on my neck are cancerous as well. In the last few days I have just begun feeling a pain below my right clavical. Would a spread just outside the neck preclude them from operating on the cancer? I'm scared that they won't operate. I'm also scared that if they do, they might take bone. I have no idea at what point teh bone gets compromised. Does anyone have experience with this?

Thanks, JC


Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Tongue and lymph nodes
35 radiation treatments
chem with cisplatin and carboplatin
Largely unsucessful