Hi Shelley and also welcome to the forum. Hopefully we can help answer your questions and let you know there's plenty of help. You're husband will be having side effects from the radiation for several months, and as he goes through those I'm sure you'll have questions of "is this normal?"

As Gary said, they'll be checking for recurrance for the next several years, but there are some of us who had fairly advanced staging and are fairly long time out with no recurrance issues. And as Gary said, radiation was much worse than surgery at least in my case also.

If you have any more questions, that's what we're here for. Support and community.
Bob