Back in early November, my husband had a lump in the right side of his neck, with no other symptoms. It was taken out, and diagnosed as Stage 3 SCC. We were all in shock as this was very low on the list according to dr. My husband is 39 years old, and was a social smoker---less than 2 packs a week. He has finished 6 treatments of chemo and has now begun radiation for 7-8 weeks 5 days a week.

I am full of questions....does this occur in moderate smokers? He was not a heavy drinker. They never found primary tumor...would prognosis be better if they had? He has had 2 PET scans and first one showed inflammation around tonsils which was due to surgery as second was clear and dr biopsied tonsils and other parts of head and neck; cancer was only found in 1 lymph node and considered stage 3 due to size.