Hi - I think Brendan meant a 95% chance of him not having an exploding artery, fistula etc... Brendan I know they're doing a neck dissection are the removing the nodules as well? Hopefully. And hopefully they are moving on this ASAP! As for the crossover. I wasn't having a second round but id started rads by a few days and then the rads guy looked at my ct and noted a small 3 mm node highlighted on the opposite side so he rewrote my plan to include that side so I had bilateral rads right out of the gate. He said there would be more severity of fallout from the increased area. But things are okay now. I do think you may have increased tightening of the crossover area and the other problems may possibly occurr, so plan for the worst hope hope for the best. Stay active, and eat super healthy. HIGH PROTEIN... And not all of it from meat. Hugs... Sorry about the recurrence but you can and will get through it. I mentioned in another post theres a woman who's had like 5 rounds of rads, and she's still okay. Because medicine has refined their rads techniques - it's possible. And tell your dr to get it all this time dammit! They're giving you chemo again too rights? Ask for maybe a combo of Erbitux and cisplatin.