What are my treatment options when neck cancer surgery can't remove it all?

When surgery can't remove all the cancer, there are often additional treatment paths to explore, including targeted therapies, immunotherapy, or clinical trials specifically designed for rare cancers like salivary ductal carcinoma. The tissue analysis will provide valuable information to help determine the most effective next steps, and the medical team can discuss all available options based on those results.

Was immunotherapy ever mentioned as an alternative to standard treatment?

It turns out the tumor is benign. The pet scan reacted to radiation damages in my neck.

Irene, I had a year of immunotherapy in addition to radiation and surgery.

I had neck surgery February 4 again because the first surgery didn't heal due to radiation fibrosis. This time they carved my pectoral muscle and threaded it through my neck, wrapped it around my carotid artery. This tissue has its own blood supply to allow the neck to heal. It destroyed my left breast which is now distorted and half the size if the right one. Due to infection, the neck wound is huge and has to be packed with wet gauze twice a day. With antibiotics it's finally starting to heal. This has been very painful.