As promised, I kept on reading you (and realized lymphomas happen to also be a topic here s.times). I hope you are doing as fine as possible with your fights, and forgive me if I wrote anything wrong or upset any of you, maybe I sounded a bit cynical or ... weird? I understand that's a serious disease, and am scheduled for tonsillectomy in 2 weeks. I feel angry.
Well, hope to share some hints, what I can say for sure now is that an MRI cannot tell the difference between hyperplasia and lymphoma, but it can tell the difference with carcinoma (and MALT lymphomas are even trickier as they sort of hide in the lymphomatous tissue). Maybe it sounds simplicistic, but this is part of the heavy lesson I am learning. Also, a biopsy in this case might no be enough.
Bitter thoughts.