Hi Paul don't remember what the stage for this one was, the first one in 2010 was stage 4. I kind of went blank when I heard I had cancer again. The numbers bounced off, I have them written down in a notebook @ home. I know they removed a lot of lymph nodes on my right neck along with my tonsils. And they did an excision biopsy on my left lymph nodes as well. Said they did not find anything over on the left.