Thank you everyone for your replies. Since we live in Maryland, we are fortunate to have Johns Hopkins Doctors on our team and they did tell us that this cancer is quite possibly related to the HPV virus. My husband got his
peg tube yesterday and had his second round of chemo today. He is receiving radiation 5x per week and chemo: Taxol and Carboplatin 1x per week for 8 weeks. His is a high grade stage IV tumor.

Amy
CG to husband Bob, age 42. DX Dec. 1,2006, SCC base of tongue Stage IV spread to lymph nodes.Currently receiving Taxol and Carboplatin. Rad. Surgery for removal of lynph nodes scheduled for late March.