Does anyone know what "extra capsular spread" means? My ENT looked at my path reports following Friday's radical neck dissection and said there was one node involved only (out of more than 30 he took out). He mentioned extra capsular spread, and I didn't think to follow up with a question on what that meant until after I hung up with him.

Thanks...

Eric

Tongue cancer (SCC), diagnosed Oct. 2003 (T2 N0 M0). Surgery to remove tumor. IMRT Radiation 30x in Dec 2003 - Jan. 2004. Recurrence lymph node - radical neck dissection June 2004. Second round of rad/chemo treatments ended Sept. 2004.