To anyone who read my earlier post in this thread- the small lump has now disappeared so we guess it's just the shifting around of fluids.

I know there's no roadmap for how things unfold with this disease, especially as the healing from treatment contines.

Lumps of any kind now cause instant alarm after my husband ( prior to treatment) ignored a growing lump for about 5 or 6 months.

I recently read a manual prepared for physicians in Sydney, Australia on diagnosing lumps in the neck and the starting point for adults (not children) was: all neck lumps in adults should be considered cancer until proven otherwise.

The manual also went on to say that time should not be spent observing or giving antibiotics but, instead, the focus should always be on ruling out cancer first. I wonder how many doctors or even us average citizens know that.

Mary