Rosemary:

a short post here because I am on the way to work but sensing your anxiety. Radiation treatment is a MUST and is the tried and true protocal for follow-up care especially if you have nodal disease.

The debate is really about the advantage of adding chemo too and from the research I have done it does seem like you daughter might be a candidate.

Sounds like you need to see at leats two different heme onc docs to get their opinions on the chemo piece of the puzzle. I doubt you will find anyone who advocates for skipping the radiation. Instead, you might find a debate about standard radiation versus IRMT (see area on this site that explains).

Dave starts radiation this morning and we are both also scared shitless (can you say that here?) about reducing his quality of life but we recognize that it is a proven and necessary course of action.

We have checked out some compimentary modalities and I'll write more later.

Hang in there,

Kim