Dinah, so sorry to hear about the reccurence. Best of luck.
I wanted to say that when my head/neck cancer was discovered, I , knowing nothing about cancer, was a little suprised and taken aback that when the Dr's find cancer in one place, they do not immediately search for it everywhere in the body. Because I had a radiologist buddy with me at the first hospital where they did my CT scan and biopsy, he sort of took control and had them ( even though not his hospital ) do a bone scan and some other areas. So far at M.D. Anderson they did order a chest and abdomen scan. But, apparently it is not prudent ( or cost effective ) from the medical standpoint to search one's body for more cancer once cancer has been located. My buddy kept saying I should have a PET scan which can detect tumors in the body by a build up of glucose...but no doctors have ordered it. They seem to want to wait until we discover a problem elsewhere in our body, and, I am told, that it is too difficult to locate stuff all over the body.
Who knows??

Danny G.