My name is David, I'm 60 yrs old and live in Northern California. In nov, 2007, as my wife and I were preparing for a 2 week trip to Puerto Vallarta, I discovered a lump on the right side of my neck. Well, I really wanted to go to Mwxico so I didn't say anything. Shortly into our trip my wife, who is an RN, noticed it and thought right off that it may be cancer. That put a dark cloud over our trip. When we got back home I went in to have it looked into. Was sent to ear, nose, throat doc who did a needle biopsy and confirmed it was malignant. Went for a pet scan which only showed the tumor on my neck and nothing else, so, the ent doc did an exploration of my throat and found the primary tumor on my right tonsil. By now it was into jan. 08 just to find the enemy. Finally started chemo on feb 1st and radiation on feb 4. Five days a weeki for 7 weeks on the rad and chemo every wed. Had wonderful support from my wife and step son but I admit there were times I felt like giving up. In may I had a pet scan which showed that the tumor had shrunk from 4.5cm to 11mm causing much optimism with the rad and chemo docs. At the end of aug. I had another scan which showed the neck area clear of cancer however there was something nasty looking in my right lung. I pretty much resigned myself to having to go through more cancer treatments and even surgery. A needle biopsy was done and after 3 days of sweating it out I got the word that it was benign and so I am cancer free. Now I'm just waiting for my taste to return so I can enjoy some real food. I know that that my salivary glands are probably a loss so it will take a lot of liquid to wash food down but that's ok, just as long as I can eat. I'm pretty tired of Ensure. But that's pretty small stuff considering that I am alive and cancer free.