Harley,

I am the one that Eileen has referred to. By no means, just because I had surgery only and am around to talk about it 4 years later, does that mean that you should not heed the good advice that you have been given here.

I went to Fox Chase CC and was seen by an experienced team of docs. The decision to do surgery only was not taken lightly, but with the chief of head and neck surgery doing the surgery and a radiation oncologist checking in, I am confident that in my case, this was the right course of treatment. Not everyone's situation is the same. I might add that I also had a modified neck dissection to be sure that there was no cancer in my lymph nodes.

You should definitely get another opinion and no matter how far you are from Anderson, I would go there.

Good luck.

Jerry