Nancy

I had one glorious year thinking I was cancer free. Two worthless PETScans certified no trace of cancer. Then exactly one year after TX was done, my ENT felt a lump but it was very small and soft. Relying upon the worthless PETscans, I deluded myself that a lump was just a lump until getting a biopsy in January 08. No symptoms, no pain, nothing to indicate the cancer had come back. Again, please don't worry about the future so early, the majority of the posters here NEVER have a recurrence. The only ones are those with bad luck like myself or like the mexican clinic guy who skipped regular treatments and goes to mexico until the recurrence is too big to ignore and then goes back for real treatment at John Hopkins. He is on his 4th time for recurrence - a moving testimonial to El Loco clinic.
Also, see if you can have your husbands tumor tested for HPV.
so far, no body on this board who has HPV positive has posted that they had a recurrence. Just us HPV negative folks.