Liz, Brian's right. I had the same thing, lump under my jaw on the opposite side of the original surgery. Sure enough 2 docs didn't think it was anything originally, 3rd suggested doing the pet and it came back positive. The original 2 docs thought possilby false positive, so waited a month, did another scan. Then 3 nodes came back "hot" on the scan. Did needle biopsy to one, sure enough was a met to the opposite side. Second neck dissection, two of the hot spots were malignant, third was an infection of some sort.

Point is, in our case "Lumps" are something to check out, not just wait and see.

Bob

SCC Tongue, stage IV diagnosed Sept, 2002, 1st radical neck dissection left side in Sept, followed by RAD/Chemo. Discovered spread to right side nodes March 2003, second radical neck dissection April, followed by more RAD/Chemo.