Hi Sandra - Glad to meet you, though too bad its here! You face the dilemma many of us have faced - how hard to hit back. How much treatment is enough? I don't know of any good answer to that. If you hit back too hard, the treatment beats you up, if you don't hit hard enough the cancer beats you up. Lousy choices at best.

Get second and third opinions. Question your doc about other tx options. What else is being tried? What combinations of treatments are working in other places? There are MANY ways to fight our kind of cancer. Don't let your doc sell you his way, until you feel its the right way for you.

Get him to read up on other tx regimes and talk to you about them. Talk to other docs - and not just surgeons (ENT's). Listen to the wise consumers of those treatments here on this site. No two cancers are the same, but we do have much in common.

The tx technology is evolving almost daily for folks like us. Push your doc to find out about your other choices. Come here often. Hold your head up and defy the beast. Be strong. We are with you. Tom