Sue,

Glad to hear your husband is doing well. The doctor's are now contemplating whether or not to do a radical neck. My fathers tumor is large and his head and neck surgeon at UVA will not operate. Now his oncologist is sending him to John Hopkins for another opinion. They dont want to radiate him at a high dose and then not be able to do surgery. My father is going for his second round of chemo on Tues. and so far he has been fine. Just tired. They started him on Erbitux because of the size and extensiveness of the tumor. He will have 7 weeks of radiation, Mon.-Friday and has Chemo weekly. He just had a PET scan last week and we are awaiting the results and praying for the best. You and your husband will be in my prayers.
D'Arcy

caregiver to father, stage IV SCC with lesion on base of tongue and mets to right lymph nodes. Current chemotherapy taxol, carboplatin and erbitux. Will start radiation 4/1/08 7 wks, 35 treatments with questionable radiacal neck at end of radiation.