Welcome to OCF. I hope that your treatment goes As you go through this process, things arise that you need to ask questions about, you may just wish to vent, or you may be looking for moral support. You have found a group of very giving people here who will be willing to help you when those times arrive. As to the neck dissection, some of us have had them after radiation, some not. Your doctors really won't know either until after the treatments end and new diagnostic films give them an idea of what's left, if anything. Some like to remove the nodes no matter what, just to be sure there is nothing hiding there. You are about to begin a tough battle, but it is winnable and there are lots of us here to prove it. We'll all be pulling for you.