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