Got to agree with NELS about the radiotherapy. It's hard going but, IMO, it's worth having those reoccurrence stats dropped. My SCC was in a lot of my tongue and 2 nodes. I had 79 removed, some of which had pre-cancerous cells forming. The RT blasts the hell out of those microscopic cells that we can't see.

A great book to read is the story of Chef Grant Achatz. He had stage iv SCC in his tongue but had a ridiculous amount of RT to get rid of it. He's been clear for nearly 10 years now.