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Anyone had surgery (TORS) with no radiation or chemo after?
Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: 6 days ago | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
Hi @mikeswen and welcome to the head and neck cancer group. Your insight and experience with TORS is very welcome in this group as TORS is becoming more and more commonplace. I also chose Mayo over UW Madison and am very satisfied with the outcome of my mandible surgery, which was required due to osteoradionecrosis from all the wonderful radiation I had years prior.
When I went through cancer treatment years ago, TORS was still in it's infancy and going by several monickers, Da Vinci for one, a rather stupid name if you know Italian in my opinion. Anyway the process and machines have come a long way in a few short years and have proven far less invasive than previous surgical techniques.
Keep us updated on your progress either by jumping back on this discussion or starting one of your own. It really helps others. Good healing.
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William, glad to hear it has been years since having cancer. I had cancer in my pyriform sinus 14 years ago and had radiation and had to eat through a feeding tube for 3 months but came out of it great and then 14 years later had this base of tongue cancer removed on 10/29/2024. I hope to be a two time survivor. The pathology on the tumor and lymph node dissection were negative so I hope my pet scan in February is negative…then I will feel all cancer was gotten. My only reason to post here was I was hoping to help other people going through this to be able to get some more information from people that have gone through it.