Thank you both Mike and Gloria. I'm 42 years old and he is 61. Cancer is nothing that either one of us had planned on (who does?) but especially now. The financial aspect is going to drain us. Although we do have health insurance, it doesn't cover everything as you know and he will be out of work soon and I will be as well to drive him to his appointments and to care for him (radiation is an hour one way). They did a biopsy, drew out necrotic fluid and the cytology report came back as "suspicion of Squamous Cell." We didn't get any copies of anything as of yet, but I'm glad you mentioned it because I will be sure to. The radiation doc said the suspicion was high enough that they are treating it as such. After the biopsy, she said she believed it to be HPV related and that's what they're hoping for. I will be sure to see if the report shows HPV with P16 protein. Gloria, I'm glad to hear that your husband's voice wasn't affected. They are treating both lymph nodes, the one that they biopsied aggressively, and the other side not so aggressively. They seem to be positive about treating this, but his quality of life after is what we're both concerned about. Also, where I will be caring for him, I'm concerned that I will mess something up. I have a medical background, but have never cared for anyone with cancer before. It's overwhelming. All we can do is take it one day at a time and trust the doctors (which I have an extremely hard time with) and their decision making. Thank you again for your response. :-)