Merimac

Your friend needs to ask for a second opinion on diagnosis, then she needs to find out ALL the available options for treatment and the cost/benefit to her health. If a second opinion is not available or she trusts this diagnosis, she then needs to ask how many cases the doctor has treated sucessfully, does this doctor treat patients in a conservative manner or does the doctor go into the experimental areas for treatment. The type of cancer and the degree it has spread, whether it is contained in the one lymph node on her neck or if there are other nodes in the body that are effected as well. Does she have any other current symptoms, and how much is the treatment going to cost? You would be surprised at how the treatment varies depending on the amount of money that is available to cover the costs....I know that it sounds pretty bad, but good health care costs a lot of money, sometimes money does determine life and death matters.