Marcus,

I just posted in response to Christine most of the answers to your questions.

The only thing that was not in that post was the margins. Yes, the Head & Neck Surgeon was able to get clear margins.

Your thoughts about not doing chemo because of infection risk are quite valid at this point, however, the Head and Neck Surgeon told me just 2 days after the initial surgery that he would only need rads, and no chemo. Infection issues were not even in play at that point.

My husband said the docs are telling him it is because the cancer has not metastized. I thought any lymph node involvement was considered reason for chemo.

I know we should have started rads about 3 weeks ago, but the infection really but a stop to that. He was in the hospital on IV antibiotics for 5 days and on oral antibiotics for 14 days after that, so everything got pushed back.