Welcome to the forum. I am sorry you need to join our family but we are here for you and will try our best to support you.

I'm afraid we can't really recommend one treatment over another. We are a group of cancer patients and caregivers whose lives have been impacted by oral cancer. We do not have the medical knowledge to diagnose or recommend treatments. That should be up to your doctors who have had years of training.

I would assume that in order to report on the pathology on the tissues removed, a biopsy will have to be performed. Do you know if the ENT has had a lot of experience treating oral cancer? This may be a consideration while you are looking for a possible third opinion. If you are indeed going to get a third opinion, it may help if you get a referral to a comprehensive cancer centre where they use a team approach and where they deal with oral cancer on a daily basis.

Please keep us informed of what you decide to do.