Where is your tumor located? Is this at a CCC or just a doctor's office or hospital? You say that this is a second opinion, what caused you to request a second opinion? How old are you?

You have found a good location for answers and support here. You can search both the forums and the entire site for subjects such as "forearm free flap".

I have had a skin graft for cancer in the floor of my mouth, a neck dissection and a free flap from my pectoral muscle for cancer in my tongue. Whether one is better than the other is really not the question - it is more a question of which treatment is best for your situation and which treatment are you most comfortable with?

Try to take a deep breath and hopefully you will get some insight here into different treatments.

Patty


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SCC Floor of Mouth 7/06
9/06 Surgery, bilateral neck dissection, 58 nodes clear PT2pN0pMx
35 rad 2006
Recurred 6/08, 1 Carboplatin, 1 Cisplatin
Surgery 9/08 - Total glossectomy, free flap from pectoral muscle, left mandible replaced using fibula
35 IMRT & Erbitux 11/08
4/15/09 recurrence
6/1/09 passed away, rest in peace