I just join this group and don't know much about head and neck cancer just an infant in this journey. I happened to wake up one morning that I had regular appiontment with my GP and noticed a what I thought was a swollen lymph node. He felt to and put me on antibontics and told me to come back in 12 days. Went back March 1 and wanted me to go to ENT told him didn't have time as daughter was getting married in at little over 2 weeks and have son I Navy due home from Iraq in a few months and wanted to go met him coming home. Well he came back in a few mins. later and said 10 o'clock tom. morning. Went to ENT the 2nd of March and he felt and looked at it and wanted a needle biopsey call pathologist to come to office then and did it. They called the next day and wanted me in the next week appt on 9th and said biopsey came back cancer. Hung up in shock and went crazy waiting the week. Went in to ENT and said matastic cancer needed to find primary. Did some kind of scope down the nose and said it looked clear thing about 2 ft. long. Sent me for CT scan that afternoon. Had app at his office friday said 5 lymph nodes and didn't show primary sent me back for pre admit for PET Monday. Went back to him Tuesday the 15 and said primary is on back of tonsil. Oncology had already called and set app for this Monday. ENT Dr is doing Monday the 28th start with full mouth extraction (guess vanity shouldn't matter much right now)tonsillectomy, parendoscopy? with left neck dissection. Metastatic non-small cell CA left neck. other than that have cardiac clearance with cardiac Dr. wed. Both GP and ENT DR.'s sent Red Cross messages and son will be home this week some time guess this tells me how bad it must be. CT and PET showed nothing else anywhere other than that one tonsil and then the lymph nodes. Had NO other symthoms. Thanks for listning and any advice appreciated by the way ENT said radiation and chemo.