in my case the tumor came back at the very base of the tongue all way back and down. Right where it had been before radiation I hope to post tonight as I am suddenly beseighed by well meaning but fundamentally misguided case workers. occupational therapist, plastic surgeons who all seem to think that in my pre hospital stay I climbed stairs on my tongue or forearm It;s a struggle to get them focused on what I need to have done, going to sign off to walk one of the most persistent ones into the ground so they will declare me exempt from participating in the pathetic shuffle around the halls that reminds me od my old college friends who were exras in the original george Romero dfilms in pgh