 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 | Hey Amelia,
Dan had the radical neck dissection first and then chemo/rad. I have read that others on this board have had the rad first and then the neck dissection. The problem Dan had was that he had to wait many months before getting any physical therapy and it would have been better to start sooner...scar tissue had already set in and he lost some movement because of the delay in PT.
God bless,
Debbie
Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.
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