Hi Everyone ~ Well, I saw this website 5 years ago and read stuff, learned alot. My husband was diagnosed 5 years ago with stage 4 tonsil cancer. He went through radiation with 3 chemos. Then the problems with his jaw really started! It died, got replaced at Sloan Kettering (NY is a 6 hour drive from where we live) then it took nearly 2 years to heal. Everything he ate and drank went through a hole in his mouth, formed a fissure on the outside of his neck and spilled out. He went for hundreds of HBO treatments, then had massive infections and was on a pic line for antibiotics. Finally, a new dr from Beth Israel replaced that jaw problem with part of his back and regained some blood flow! Yay! So now, 5 years later, that Dr ordered a PET scan that was done on Good Friday and they found uptake in some lymph nodes in the middle of the chest. We go tomorrow to see what's up with that. It's been a rocky road and when he got diagnosed, 12 other people (close to us and in the news) had similar cancer and he's the only one left. Thought 5 years out was a safety zone.