Hello, here's my story and my question...I was diagnosed with scc on the side of my tongue at the end of December'07. (non smoker, casual drinker, age 47) In January I had a partial glossectomy and they removed a tumor that was 1.5cm across but at a depth of 5mm. My Dr. said that anytime the depth is over 4mm they suggest a neck dissection. I had that done 3/5/08 and the results were that they removed 71 lymph nodes on the rt. side of my neck and of those, one was cancerous. Staging....T1, N1, M0 "early stage 3"

My question is this, my Dr. was to present me to the tumor board on Friday...He feels that because the lymph node that was involved was small and "encapsulated" that he would not suggest radiation. Everything I'm reading is saying that radiation generally follows the neck dissection if there is any lymph node involvement.

Has anyone here had anything similar.