[quote=Brian Hill]Lymph nodes are part of your immune system, and a primary pathway for your body to eliminate toxins and other waste byproducts of infections and the like. They are a place that we find cancer metastasizing to, but they are never the location of a primary cancer. [/quote]

Brian-I am sorry, but you misread my post. I was only correcting the statement you made as quoted above. And, you are wrong about a neck presentation being a late manifestation of lymphoma. It is precisely what my husband's oncologist and ENT suspected prior to his excisional biopsy. By the way, FNA's routinely give false negatives for many types of cells and are often inadequate in dianosing lymphoma as well as SSC.

In addition, someone in fact DID mention that SCC may have started in a lymph node. Please refer to live&love's question in the first post on this thread where she asks if it could have started in a lymph node.

I am sorry if I have offended you.