Hello everyone. My husband is a little more than halfway through his 35 radiation treatments and second chemo out of three tomorrow. He is really responding well to all of this. Yesterday the doc mentioned for the first time that on some patients they will do a lymph node dissection if they think there are any cells there. Of course we would not know until PET scan some time after treatment. What does the procedure entail?


caregiver for husband
diagnosed with oral cancer May 2011 after 6 mo
node lft side and several in jaw involved
Base of Tongue Stage IVA
7 weeks radiation
Cisplatin-3 chemos (beginning,middle,end) IntraV administration