Hello and welcome. I can give you an example (my own) of the timeline involved. Things happen very slowly until the full diagnosis is in and then it happens all at once. I first saw my family doc about the lump on my neck on nov 20th or so 2007. she sent me to an ENT who saw me around the end of the nmonth and did a needle biopsy. It took until dec 22nd to know for sure that it was SCC but unknown primary so had to set up an exploratory surgery of the whole throat area. 1 1/2 weeks later found out it was right tonsil. No surgery was recommended but talked about radiatuion/chemo but had to see dentist first to make sure my teeth could handle the radiation. Didn't start treatments til feb 1 2008. Definately will try your patience. Once the enemy is known, you just want to get after it. Best of luck to you in this trying time.

edited for misspellings.