[quote=PaulB] 80% of the time, an unknown primary is in the oropharynx...[/quote]

That's how I was treated, radiating both sides. My team feels my body eradicated the primary site but not before it spread it's joy to my lymph nodes. I would have had rads only if the tumors had not been extracapsulated.

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57
Cardiac bypass 11/07
Cardiac stents 10/2012
Dx'd 11/30/2012 Tx N2b MO Stage IV HPV+
Palatine Tonsillectomy/Biopsies 12-21-12
Selective Neck Dissection/Lingual Tonsillectomy/biopsies TORS 2/7/13
Emergency Surgery/Bleeding 2/18/13
3/13/2013 30rads/6chemo
Finished Tx 4/24/13
NED Since