I don't wish you to start thinking down a negative pathway, but the doctor will really not know what stage the cancer is until that MRI comes back and he finds that he has no involved nodes or other suspect areas associated with it. If it is clean, than indeed your husband is a stage one, and that would be good news because it is highly treatable with good long-term survival prospects. Please post the results here, to keep us up to date on what we hope will be good news.

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.