Cheryld I don't quite understand what you are saying. If his tumor is not HPV, then he's fine without the surgery? His tumor is HPV+ and surgery from what we have researched is not the treatment status quo for most HPV+ tumors. This Dr at mayo is one of the very few in the world that will reccomend surgery for HPV+ tumors. So we decided against the surgery and will stick with the main stream trmt plan of 35 rad trmts at 70grys with 3 doses of ciplatin. Im frusturated that there isn't more evidence of a cure rate with the surgery and decreased amount of rads/chemo. Verses just sticking with rad/chemo trmt. I wish there was more research done into both trtmt method options so that people can look at concrete evidence when they are faced with this decision. I was frusturated the Dr just kept telling them the choice is theirs. I felt like with his expertise on this he should have steered them one way or another. Now we are always going to wonder what would have been if we stuck with the surgery route. Ughhh!!!!