If it is any consolation, in my own case I did not have significant node size reduction by the end of radiation treatments. When I had the neck dissection to remove the suspect nodes, the biopsy of them after surgery showed that they were all cancer free. The radiation had killed everything. So size is not the only indicator of the removal of the cancer, and nodes which are cancer free after radiation, can still show positive on CT scanning.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.