"Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 507 | Laurie, Is your husband being treated at a major Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC)?
It is very rare these days for a CCC not to find a primary and bilateral lymph nodes tumors from a true unknown or multiple unknowns seems very unusual.
There is a lot of extra and larger areas of irradiation to endure when the primary can not be found, so a good CCC does a lot of extra work looking, surgical scoping, special hi-res CT scans, maximized slice CT/PET scans, lots of punch biopsies, numerous doctors/surgeons looking, etc.. before giving up.
Unknowns often suffer higher morbidity issues from the excessive radiation
Don TXN2bM0 Stage IVa SCC-Occult Primary FNA 6/6/08-SCC in node<2cm PET/CT 6/19/08-SCC in 2nd node<1cm HiRes CT 6/21/08 Exploratory,Tonsillectomy(benign),Right SND 6/23/08 PEG 7/3/08-11/6/08 35 TomoTherapy 7/16/08-9/04/08 No Chemo Clear PET/CT 11/15/08, 5/15/09, 5/28/10, 7/8/11
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