Thanks Leslie. Anyone going through this will attest to the fact that it's easy to spiral into dark places when digging around online. Very happy to hear of your husband's continued good outcome, and grateful that you share it.

If the ENT surgeon does not offer imaging (unlikely), I will likely insist on it.

I'm torn on the elective neck dissection, however. From my reading, there seems to be quite a bit of controversy over it (for early lesions). A few posters on OCF seem to have benefited by it.

Anyone have experience about the side effects/morbidity of a full/modified neck dissection? I feel like if there's a 20-30% chance of picking up an occult metastasis, it's worth going for it. But, I'd hesitate if the morbidity afterwards was quite significant.