I agree with the above, if the margins are clean AND wide enough. Jims margins, if I recall correctly (Jim pipe up if not) were just 1.5 mm or 0.15cm. This is really small. Generally you want >5mm to 10mm.

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Partial glossectomy (25%) anterior tongue. 4/6/07/. IMRT start @5/24/07 (3x) Erbitux start/end@ 5/24/07. IMRT wider field (30x) start 6/5/07. Weekly cisplatin (2x30mg/m2), then weekly carbo- (5x180mg/m2). End of Tx 19 July 07.