i am new to responding however, i feel this should be also stated, my husband completed his treatments and was well on his way but at dana farber stage 4 treatment is always followed with neck surg. to be on the safe side, he had cat and pet scans and he said if they looked good he wanted to not have surg. that did not fly with his team however, and off he went the neck surg. was nothing for him after all he had been through and it turned out they did take out the muscle and 40 some nodes and did find some of the cursed cells but they removed it... without surg. and the insistent team we would have gone on hoping for the best... please don't take this and feel badly i would have not wanted to have the surg. either but what if we hadn't ... that was two weeks and 45 staples ago and he is fine again fighting back ... if only we could go out and have dinner without such a hard time , but this will come...

be happy - and insist on tests -