I am 42 years old and waiting for biopsy results. I am a little nervous and have a few questions. This seems like the place to go. Here is a little information.

I bit my cheek hard about a year ago. I remember this because it was the hardest I ever bit my cheek in my life and took a while to stop hurting. Sometime afterward I noticed a bump. It looked like a blister on the inside of my cheek, where I bit it. The bump would increase in size and decrease often. Sometimes within the same day. I didn�t think that was characteristic of cancer, so I never had it looked at.

Fast forward nine months later and I was in the dentist with my son, and mentioned the bump. The dentist looked at it and said I should have a biopsy because it has been there so long, but let the oral surgeon evaluate.

I went to the oral surgeon this week and he too agreed for a biopsy. In fact he ended up removing the whole lump. It was about the size of a peanut. I tried to get out of him, if he thought it was nothing or it looked suspicious. He would not really say either way. He said the pathology is really the answer. When he did my exam and looked around the rest of my mouth and checked by neck glands and my bite, that was all normal.

I work in the medical field, so I see people everyday who never thought they would be where they are, and I admit I am a little scared. The area where he removed the lump is sore and I have a little pain in my jaw.

My husband just says, he knows for sure it�s nothing. But he lives in denial world always, where nothing bad will ever happen.

I think what is making it worse is, I have been thinking for a while, that I wasn�t living how I wanted for a few years now. I have been too afraid to make the changes, mostly career changes and finding more time to enjoy life. I kept thinking I would in the future. But now I think, if it is cancer, I will regret how I lived my life the last two years. (stressed, rushing through things, hating my career, always secondly guessing my decisions)

So here I am and I thought I would ask a few questions. Sorry, I know I sound kind of schizophrenic here with all these thoughts.

Do the biopsy results really take a week or more?

Has anyone here had their cancer start on the inside of their cheek?

Did you feel a little anxious waiting for results? And start reevaluating your life.

Anyway I know this was long, so thanks for reading and any support you may be able to lend. MaryAnn