Hi Bruno,

My husband was originally diagnosed with mets to nodes on both sides (no biopsy on both sides, just a PET scan that lit up bilaterally.) The RO decided against doing a bilateral radical neck dissection because the radiation would, in effect, destroy all the lymph nodes in his neck and eradicate the cancer in the process.

His cancer was staged at IVa and T0N2cM0 which means that only lymph nodes had (presumably) detectable cancer and there was no identifiable tumor. His field of radiation was from the tip of his nose, to his spine and down to his collar bone since there wasn't a tumor to target.