Success of radiation only without any surgery after 2-3 years?

Are you still searching for one?

Take care, God Bless-Russ

Well, Star I am interested too.

So I did a little more searching and found that they do treat patients with radiation therapy alone or surgery alone.

In general, patients with early-stage head and neck cancers (particularly those limited to the site of origin) are treated with one primary therapy—either radiation therapy or surgery.

Also--If the plan of treatment is radiation therapy alone for the primary cancer, the neck is also treated with radiation therapy.

So radiation alone would be early-stage cancer limited to the site of origin. Patients with more advanced cancer are treated with combined modalities of treatment.

Patients who have more advanced cancers are often treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy given together. Sometimes, depending on the clinical scenario, patients are treated with surgery followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

So there are cases that are treated with radiation alone although you may not find someone on here that has gone that route. Principally because people do not end up on here if they are treated for early stage cancer and it is limited to one type of treatment like radiation and it is resolved. Because it is then resolved with that one type of treatment and they have no need to look anywhere else for support or information.

If their cancer is not resolved with that one type of treatment and multiple treatments are now being proposed to them to resolve their cancer situation then they are seeking support and end up finding support sites like this one. Most definitely because they may be upset and confused and wondering about their whole situation where in the treatment they had which was supposed to work failed and now they have to have more treatments that are more devastating to go through and now really trying to make sure they are on the right path.

Here is the site where I got the information from RadiologyInfo.org for patients, Head and Neck Cancer.

I also found this--under-Overview of Multimodal Clinical Management of Head and Neck Cancer.

Radiotherapy may be used alone or as a part of multimodality approach, and often with significant long term side effects. Single-modality radiation therapy (RT) may be an alternative for these early-stage cases when functional concerns preclude the use of surgery.

Found on this site--

I hope this helps in some way.

Take care, God Bless-Russ

I was diagnosed with Tonsil cancer back positive for the HPV virus in 2014. They found the primary in the right tonsil that had spread to two lymph nodes on the same side.

I had the Tonsil removed and only got 33 radiation treatments with no chemo. The treatment was brutal, and it took about seven months to get to the new normal. The taste was back entirely in a year, and the dry mouth kept improving for about three years post-treatment. The only side effect after 8 1/2 years is a bit of dry mouth.

I hope this helps.