Hi Jeff,
I know that every case is different, but my husband did have luck with having his lung metastasis being resected. He was diagnosed with base of tongue cancer in 1998. Then a lung met showed up the next year (1999) in his left lung. He had that resected. Following year (2000) another met in right lung. They resected that. Did chemo after and was NED until 2014. He's now battling again with new primary BOT and lymph mets, but I feel we were very lucky that the treatment was so aggressive back then. I don't really know how/why they made decision to resect ( maybe it was just one small nodule?) but it gave him 14 more years. That's why I'm glad you're getting opinion from CCC. If you're up for a third opinion i can tell you that MDAnderson was wonderful. Good luck and keep fighting!
Nancy