My husband had surgery in February for removal of the tonsil,base of the right tongue and soft palate. He has had 19 treatments of Radiation with 14 more to go. After reading different posts it makes me wonder if he should of had the RAD first. The doctors acted so quickly after he was diagnoised because time was so important. We feel he had good advice but we did not go to another source for another opinion of treatment. He is with Doctors from UCI in California and goes to Long Beach Memorial for the radiation. I know it will be a long haul for us but I want him to be able to eat again in the future. A question I have for others is when do the swallowing therapy starts, after he heals from radiation? There is so much of a differences of treatments with the patients in this forum, I get a little confused, what is best???? That is probably a silly question as everybody is different. Thanks, I will keep reading and hopefully learning. Becky