Welcome Nancy, your husband, including yourself, have had a long journey in a short time. I had tonsil cancer too. Your doctors were very aggressive in treating, which it sometimes takes, but with HPV, it's usually Chemoradiation, being its very responsive, and surgery as a last resort, which I had, but there are number of ways to go about this, and what your doctors chose. In retrospect, this is the type treatment I wish I had.

Erbitux is used, but is not recommended outside clinical trials, until studies are done, and is used for recurrent, metastatic disease, after a platinum drug, like Cisplatin failed, so the gold standard for now is Cisplatin. Some combine Cisplatin with Erbitux, which reportebky had good results, but have also read of disappointing findings in this combination by MSKCC. I had Erbitux and Taxol my last round.

Good luck with your 2nd opinion.