Sorry for the confirmation. As my doctor said, it's no surprise. Sometimes just knowing where you stand is a relief, instead of the unknown. Now you'll have to decide what treatments, and where you'll be treated is best for you. It sounds like HPV involvement, which most are in the oropharynx. It's responds well to treatment, such as radiation, and even better with chemo. They are doing clinical trials for deesculation of treatment with HPV, Erbitux, and lesser radiation, and say for now that it should not be used outside clinical trials. Its still no walk in the park, and much is still unknown. There also seems to be three sub strains with the HPV-16 virus, which one type seems to be more aggressive, but this is new information. Another fact, and for some reason, failure or recurrence in HPV, in areas not often associated is being seem after 5 year as opposed to non HPV, which failure levels off after two years, which maybe some may consider.

My treatment schedule was for TPF Induction chemo, 3 cycles, which basically will kill all the cancer, followed by 7 weeks Chemoradiation, similar to what Don Foo had. It's not easy, and I only did 5 days lol, and I'm not weak person physically or mentally. Everyone's bodily response is different. I always say, we only hear from the people who are doing or did well, not the ones that didn't, and can say that from personal experience.

There are other matters of concern, which can be discussed one you get settled in, get your 3rd opinion, HPV status, TNM staging.

Good luck.