Actually - charm you're right - I like the idea of clinical trials - they were talking to me about one but it concerned me a little because they were considering dropping my chemo to replace it... Which might have been ok if half the group wasn't getting a placebo...

I'm glad I wasn't a candidate in a way - it's one thng if you are swapping one treatment for another but for a maybe? That's a little concerning..

@anneo glad you're out... Your case sounds exactly like mine but they did it all at the same time - I had the scans and everything - did a neck dissection and rebuild ( i think mine was bigger than yours -the lesion - but they discovered in the post op pathology I had the one node with a little extra capular activity- that's why I start rads etc Friday - now I know I had my lesion for at least 4 years... And it hadn't spread just gotten bigger... I wonder if the biopsy popped the containment unit, so to speak, and started the movement - it's too bad they don't go in with the intention of removing the entire mass from the outset. I mean at the biopsy stage. just a " wonder why" observation.

Have a great day - I'm off to enjoy one of my last few comfortable breakfasts... Before nuke day..