The neck disection is an easier part of treatment for Head and Neck cancer. Not that any of the treatment is easy. I've had a neck disection and if faced with the decision to have another, I would do it without to much apprehension. The benefits emotionally of knowing the cancer is gone would be enough to push me to that decision.

SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.