Mela,
I had cancer under my left jaw and in my the top node on my neck. Besides removing my jaw, they removed ever node on that side of my neck. I proceeded to have 36 radiation treatments and chemo on top of that. My cancer was extremely aggressive and even though wide margins were achieved by surgery, it was felt to increase my long term survival percentages to greatly. I asked the team the same question- “is it worth it?” - my survival rate for 5 years tripled and maybe double my 10 year survival rate. It is not easy but I want to live to see our grandchild grow up - my salivary glands do not work and my taste is minimal - I knew these things might happen but I wanted to do EVERYTHING possible to increase my long term odds of survival- best wishes to you!