Thanks for that Gary.All i was saying was that in the overall picture of his treatment Robins bilateral radical neck dissection and secondary tumour removal gave him the least amouint of problems in terms of the actual operation and his recovery.(Yes it was a breeze compared to radiotherapy)He was in hospital for 36 hours after the operation and came home with 58 staples in his neck which were removed after 10 days.He was back at work after two weeks with no side effects at first,but of course the bruised trigeminal nerve gave him heaps later on when it started to recover.

I am sure that if you have other major surgery concurrently it will give you a very different view of a neck dissection,but i wasn't aware that this was the question.



liz