Hi Gloria, Thank you for the update and hooray for good news! Bart, it was good to hear from you too; you made me laugh in my saddest hours last year with your posts--and your optimism and whack-a-mole analogy are right on. I communicate with two women by email whose dad/husband are dealing with mets. Between them, gloria, bart, stily, zenda I have heard so many different treatment approaches to what I am sure are similar to wildly differing pathologies. Mets seems almost to be its own little subset of this recurrence forum. Not sure where I am going with this, except if I were a researcher, I would be want to do something with all this valuable data. As it is, I am grateful to glean every bit I can to help me prepare questions for doctors. And of course I am happy to share our experience. I will know more in a week.

Best to all, and thanks for being here,
Mary


Mary
Caregiver to husband, 60
Dx Sept '12 SCC BOT T2N2aMo, Stage IV, HPV+
Oct '12 Sub.Gland transfer
Nov-Dec '12 IMRT x 33 + cisplatin x7
March '13 PET/CT: 2 spots on lungs; (BOT & neck lymphs NED)
April '13 Biopsy: 1 = malignant right hilar lymph (met from HNSCC)p16
9/13: 33 rounds IMRT to lungs; carboplatinx7
CT w/contrast 12/30/13: 2 spots left hilar lymph. biopsy confirms SCC
30 rounds IMRT to left lung; treatment ended 5/29/14
Sept 2014--CT clear; December 2014 CT clear