Hi John, and welcome -- I'm glad you found us. Christine and David are offering great advice.

I know it's hard, but please try not to focus too much on statistics. They're all made out of individual cases and there's no way of knowing where you as an individual will fall on the continuum.

Like you, I had surgery and am now in chemoradiation. The course of treatment we are on is very typical and the best preventive against local and distant recurrence.

I've gotten tremendous support and help from the folks on this site, and you will too.

M

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T3N2aM0 HPV+
5/26/13 discovered painless superball-sized lymph node in neck
6/26/13 DX SCC R palatine tonsil
7/16/13 TORS tonsillectomy & selective ND, mets to 2 nodes
9/3/13 Cisplatin and rads begin, tolerated 1.5 of 3 planned chemo doses
10/16/13 Treatment ends
Dec 13 Ulcer appears at surgery site
Jan 17 Biopsy -- no cancer!
Feb 17 CT/PET Scan lights up tonsil bed & nasal cavity, docs say probably inflammation, don't panic, rescan when ulcer subsides