Husband is at Mayo today and in the morning, he will have a CT guided biopsy to the area that has not been reachable.

They were very positive and have seen this tumor situation on the carotid artery often. The doc said she has only lost 1 patient with this scenario and feel there is a 80-90% success rate possible.

She is awaiting to see how much radiation he was given the first time to determine course of action. The bottom line is, this area probably never received radiation the first time.

So here we are....sitting and waiting for a few days until they figure out a game plan.

He will be doing immunotherapy most likely as well. That can be done an hour from here and the radiation would be either 5 days or 6 weeks 4 hours north of us at Mayo.

Most positive thing I've heard in the past couple of weeks....been really dreary in my household lately.