Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 346 Likes: 3 | Go ahead and start looking for the second opinion, if she's dragging her feet. They always seem to leave a window of time between surgery and radiation anyway (so there's healing of the surgical site), so you must have at least that much time to work with.
((hugs)) Wish we could all do more for you.
Surgery 5/31/13 Tongue lesion, right side SCC, HPV+, poorly differentiated T1N0 based on biopsy and scan Selective neck dissection 8/27/13, clear nodes 12/2/13 follow-up with concerns 12/3/13 biopsy, surgery, cancer returned 1/8/14 Port installed PEG installed Chemo and rads 2/14/14 halfway through carboplatin/taxotere and rads March '14, Tx done, port out w/ complications, PEG out in June 2017: probable trigeminal neuralgia Fall 2017: HBOT Jan 18: oral surgery
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