The fibrosis of soft tissue will continue. I am 18 months post radiation. I started to notice from last May that the tissue around my neck become harder and harder, the range of stiffness is bigger and bigger. I asked my doctor about it and I was told that it is the fibrosis of soft tissue. My left side of tongue is also painful, sometimes, it feels like pin and needle, sometimes it feels numb (I just realized that numb is defined as a type of pain too).

The survival is measured from the day of diagnosis.