Ok....surgery is done. They took out 32 lymph nodes, 3 of which had cancer in them....and 2 of those had extracapsular extension...meaning they were opening up to pour their little contents into my body.

Saw the Radiologist last week, he feels that the radiation range of this cancer is below the last time...he will know for absolute sure when he does the simulation.

Saw the Oncologist yesterday....he doesn't want to give me chemo...he said in his research he could not find a single justification for putting my body through it again. BUT, he is sending my file off to the Univ. of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and see what they say.

I don't know how I feel, I should be reveling in the fact that I don't have to do chemo...but I don't get why finding a recurrence of nasopharyngeal cancer in my lymph nodes so astonishing. He said a NPC recurrence is rare, and to have one in the lymph nodes with it no where else is one in a million.

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