Hi,
Your story is our story only starting a year later. We finished tx in October of 2011, but found the lymph node in April of that same year. I knew it was cancer right away because a friend told me her brother had had the same symptoms as Kevin. Swollen node, clearing his throat, voice had changed a bit and he said he felt like there was something in his throat. I had to fight the docs to finally do an MRI. That was after all the antibiotics....We got the results of the MRI back and everything went very quickly after that and I was seething.
It sounds strange to be doing this additional chemo. You can read my sig. for our tx and we haven't done anything else for chemo since.
I would definitely push for the HPV status of the tumor. One thing to be aware of is being vigilant with your PAPs. I had to have a hysterectomy this past year because of abnormal PAPs with HPV16. Just something to think about.
Kathy