 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,409 Likes: 1 | Susan, it's great that you have trust in your doctor. That's key. To answer your question: after the first biopsy - the lump in my neck "grew back" (i.e. filled up again as with your husband) within a day - the doctor said that I could have the cyst removed if I chose to. Glad I chose to! But really, it was such a sizable hard nodule in my neck that it wasn't something that I would have wanted to live with. So it wasn't them pursuing it but my choice... yikes.
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SCC of occult origin 1/09 (age 55)| Stage III TXN1M0 | HPV 16+, non-smoker, moderate drinker | Modified radical neck dissection 3/09 | 31 days IMRT finished 6/09 | Hit 15 years all clear in 6/24 | Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome kicked in a few years after treatment and has been progressing since | Prostate cancer diagnosis 10/18
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