Hi Tom, I'm a stage II tongue cancer survivor who also had perineural invasion and thus radiation (and in my case I chose to have chemo as well to be sure the rad. was as effective as possible). I had IMRT and my understanding is it should help to save most of one big salivary gland--though right now, 4 months out, I'm having pretty severe drymouth (but it can take up to a year for salivation to return). I had 33 days of rad--66 Gy. I think this is pretty standard these days.

This is a great place to get support as you go through rad--everyone's experience of it is different but no one will tell you it's a walk in the park. Nonetheless, it's do-able with the support you'll find here.

Nelie