Petey, I have been reading our posts since the beginning. You need to get into treatment and stop going down this path that others have described as resignation to death and an end in the near future. Just from the posts above in this thread it is clear that you are working from bad information. BOT cancers are only treated in the most extreme cases with surgery because of the consequences to quality of life. The treatments are typically radiation and chemo to reduce size and volume and at the end IF necessary, surgery.

Even for those that have a total glossectomy, which are NOT the majority of cases, there is still life afterwards. Is it a complicated and difficult life?... certainly. But it is worth having. I won't bother listing all the famous people that immediately come to mind that have had bad, if not worse situations and still made major contributions to the world. I don't want to appear too calloused here, but you need to quit screwing around and go deal with this while there is time. If you keep waiting, you


Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.