 Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 94 | Hello, and welcome!
First of all, I do not think you are hypochondriac at all, so please relax. You have to be your own best advocate and insist that doctors do more tests.
I am pretty new here and not an expert by any means, but what you could be anything. It is never cancer till it biopsy confirms it.
I would push your dentist for a biopsy. I see what you describe about your insurance, but could your regular doctor refer you to an ENT? Seems like it would be worthwhile at this point.
Good luck!
36, female, left tonsil HPV+ SCC, T2N1
8/28/13 SCC in left tonsil
9/12/13 surgery:TORS and selective neck dissection (levels II-IV), 23 nodes removed
9/18/13 post surgery biopsy: 2mm clear margins, a 7mm lymph node positive in level IV, no ECL
10/28/13 rad begins, 30 treatments, tomotherapy
12/09/13 radiation ends!
2/10/14 papillary thyroid cancer
2/26/14 PET shows clear neck other than thyroid cancer, but with high uptake in an ovarian cyst
2/27/14 thyroidectomy
3/5/14 pelvic ultrasound
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