Yeah. That's why I said the papers. This is a complicated area of oncology and requires some in-depth knowledge.

You read the actual papers?

/shrugs/ Read the papers yourself.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34699271/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31416685/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360301621028121

/shrugs/ Surgeons generally will say whatever the hell they want.

The only thing that actually matters is the pathology report.

And the pathology reports for patients treated with robotic trans-oral resections of throat tumors leave residual tumors a large proportion of the time.

That is incorrect.

Short version: The throat surgeons who use this technology rarely remove the whole tumor. Then the patient needs radiation and/or chemotherapy to fix the residual. This happens in nearly 80% of those patients who undergo the robot surgery.

So, 3 treatments instead of 1 or 2.

Don't do this. Heavily increases the risk of multi-modality treatment.