What I had is tonsillectomy and radical neck disection. He removed about 70 lymph nodes. The surgeon cut my mandible in order to get adequate access to the tumor site, I had a pectoral skin graft made from my left chest and transplanted into my mouth/neck to cover/fill the void left by the surgery. A metal plate was installed to the mandible to connect it together.

Following the surgery, I had 30 RAD and concurrent weekly Chemo of Cisplatin. Two weeks into the RAD, I developed an infection, I had a surgery to drain the pus from my left chin, so, the RAD stopped for more than a week, then the Doc increased the number of RAD to 33.

My treatment was done late Nov 2002. again I had several infections in my left chin since then, so the Doc sent me to Hyperbaric oxygen treatment now, it will be done late Jan. At this moment, I still feel throat pain and all the side effect from both surgery and radiation.

Wishing you good luck in your treatment