Kathy not all patients are limited to doing rads once. I know plenty of our members that have gone thru rads twice. I even know a couple who had it 3 times. We usually see multiple rads done when a patient has a few years between each of the rad treatments and their next cancer is in a different location. This is done on a case by case basis and usually only at the major CCCs. Usually the second round of rads is a lesser dose too. Also, there are several different chemos that may be able to be used if he would get chemo with rads.

Im not sure what the meaning of the phrase you posted is. When lymph nodes are taken normally many are taken after the positive one to ensure all the cancer has been removed. Do you know how many nodes were taken? If it was found in one node then that node should have been taken plus several more. At your husbands next appointment please get more info from his physician. Im interested to know the total of how many nodes they took after finding one positive.

Best wishes!