Hi Steve,

I am so sorry to hear about your reoccurence.

I am new here but I am experiencing a reoccurence with my father's BOT cancer so I thought I would share with you and get feedback as well. Nothing has been confirmed yet but a suspicious knot popped up on the crook of his arm near the armpit a couple weeks ago. Home health nurse contributed it to a strained muscle. Dr. looked at it yesterday and requested an ultrasound and it ruled out a knotted muscle. Confirmed as an enlarged lymph node. A needle biopsy is being done on Halloween to see if it is just infection or cancer has spread. His total gloss/laryn was done on Sept 4, 2012. His tumor was approaching softball size in his throat. He was diagnosed in 2009 and has never actually been "clean" for longer than 9-12 mo without a "hot spot" showing up on the PET. He is an alcoholic however, and I most definetly believe that where he refused to give up alcohol was the reason for all of his set backs.

I was curious if they would try to do radiation on him since the knot popped up in an area away from original site of tumor in his neck? I know he took max rad to his throat in 2009 when the tumor was diagnosed but being away from the site I was wondering if it would be treatable with rad/chemo again or do another surgery.