Well, Gary...it was IMRT. The location of the treatment (meaning, the hospital) and not the location of the tumor (or lack, thereof) should speak volumes about why IMRT was going to be used and not XRT.

Thank you for the head's up about the topical meds. There were no other variables in play before treatment. He didn't have any skin problems at all. The only complaint he had was that there was a lump on the left side of his neck that had been there for nearly a year (yes, I know...he kept thinking it would go away.) Boy, is he regretting the decision to find out what it was!

I did read in the Erbitux literature that secondary infections have been noted. So, that's probably what is going on.

Well, since we were not dealing with the sharpest instruments in doctor's bag, that's what we were told was to be the field of radiation--tip of nose down to the collarbone and back all the way to the spine. If ya can't find it...torch all of it...at least that seemed to be the plan.