and typical of an unreviewed account, clearly that was a lymph node in his neck not a cyst. I also agree about the word cured. I prefer cancer free... it's a state I hope to stay in for some time, but there are no guarantees. Notice also that even with a pathologist for a wife, he did not go through a tumor board, or to a ccc. While he has come out of this so far, most of us on this board know all too well that the path this particualr portion of the story details is not the path that is an optimum journey through the halls of medicine. I commend him for wanting to get his story out there, but since this was likely and unknown primary oral cancer, it would have been nice if he had said so ...the disease could use the exposure.