Thank you all for your comments, particularly CHARM just out of recovery. We are just wondering why my husband's RO wants to give him 42 treatments and not the standard 33-38? RO said that this is accelerated treatment and actually wanted to treat my husband twice a day with 240 rads per day. Of course we want the cancer completely gone but this more aggressive method causes more swallowing problems and makes the side effects worse. I have heard from others who have been treated by this doc that he does tend to "over radiate" and he's the only community RO we have here. So that's why we are scared. When we mentioned it to him he just shrugged and told us he knows best (very arrogant). My husband is getting check up with the Hopkins surgeon during his 6th week of therapy so we will hopefully see how things have progressed then. We SHOULD have got a second opinion from another RO out of our area. It's enough to deal with the cancer but to have to deal with doctor's egos is too much. Sorry to vent. Hope husband's RO isn't a member of this site he'll probably fry us both!!! LOL. At least I laughed.