Hello Sweetpea and welcome to OCF. Although I don't, someone here will have the answers you are looking for. I haven't been a member very long but have found everything I've looked for and the best part here are the members. Everyone is so friendly, it's like I've found a new family. Another thing, you can talk about anything here which I can't with my family because they really don't want to hear about most of it. Carol


DX 6/05 Rt Tonsil SSC advanced to lymph node. Stage 4b. RND, took tonsils, strips off the back of tongue, throat and nose. 19 lymph nodes removed only 1 bad. Once healed, 7 weeks of treatment including 35 IMRT, 7 Cisplatin, 7 Erbitux and 35 nasty Amophostine. Almost 11 yrs out now. Woooo Hoooo!