Brian advised me to search for occults on the site which I did. My doctor did not advise me on the possibility of occults. I have had surgery only. The site in the mouth was removed and also several nodes in my neck as the sentinel node could not be located. The guidance I received from my Dr was if the sentinel node was clean (he is sure one of the nodes that was removed was the sentinel node), then the odds of cancer being somewhere else was extremely low. All my nodes and margins came back clean. My speciman was also free of what I will call "areas of concern" which were also looked for.

However, I read the comments on occults as even with the above clear results, there is a ~29% chance that I have cancer that was undectected as it is too small, hence the need for raditation to make sure everything is cleaned up.

Additionally, I have not had PET or MRIs, lung xray only.

I would greatly appreciate any insight.

Thanks for any help.