David,

I updated my signature some more. Thanks for the acronyms. Yes, my husband is young. I'm 40 and we have a 14 month old and a 4 year old. Our life has been thrown into a tailspin. We moved from NY to GA in 5/07. Right before we left, he had the lump in his neck checked out in Syracuse. They treated it like a sinus infection and gave him an antibiotic. They told him to get it checked out in a few months in GA if it didn't go away. Needless to say, we got wrapped up in moving, having a new baby, new position at a new office for my husband, me leaving my job and becoming a stay-at-home Mom, etc. and the lump never came about again until July of this year.


age 35 at DX,EBV-, HPV+,stage 4a oropharyngeal BOT rt side 1 node+/15 nodes - rt side of neck, non-smoker/drinker, induction therapy to begin 9/18/08 cisplatin,5FU,taxotere 2X, radiation to follow for 7 wks, radiation completed 1/21/09