When they were poking and prodding me back in early 2009 my RO sent me to an MO for consultation. After my neck dissection I remember being in the ICU when the latter came in and told me "I have good news for you - no chemo." He seemed surprised that I wasn't more demonstrably excited. At the time, with an emergency trache in and more tubes than the London Underground, I barely could open my eyes.

The reason he gave was that there was no extracapsular spread from the 2 infected nodes, the larger of which had been removed a month or two earlier during my first neck surgery, when they still thought it was a cyst.

Maybe protocols have changed in the last two years?

Anyway I put my trust in my team and I'm okay now nearly 5 years later. I should add that the MO, just recently retired, was at the time a professor at the UCLA medical school, which is a decent place so they tell me.

FWIW...