My fiance was given a partial glossectomy with a selective neck dissection with only 1 cancerous node removed. It seems that most of you have had partial dissections with many more nodes removed. Can anyone tell me why the doctors would choose to only remove one lymph node? We had such a scare after his surgery, as they never inserted a feeding tube and the same day out of surgery he was given soft foods to eat. The second day at home the surgical area where the tumor was removed on the base of his tongue split open, he then lost so much blood, had to be resusitated and helicopted to another hospital for a second emergency surgery. After all that we've been through I'm just now getting over that and starting to question everything that has happend over the last week.