I haven't visited this group since undergoing radiation in Feb/March 03. I was doing great until they found a node in June that is positive. I'd like to know what I should expect from this surgery - recovery, survival, etc. I'm also wondering why they don't check for nodes that are positive before removing all of them as I believe they now do with breast cancer (which I've also had twice, but before they did that checking of nodes). Won't taking all my nodes destroy my ability to filter cancer cells if I get a reoccurrence in my mouth?