"OCF Canuck" Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 5,264 Likes: 5 | If it is 15mm - that's 1.5cm - the node they removed when they did my surgery was 1.4 cm (or 14 mm) it was very palpable. The size of a small bird's egg. It was NOT too small to biopsy. Plus as someone else mentioned there is very much the possibility of doing an ultrasound guided biopsy. I would PUSH - better safe than sorry.
Cheryl : Irritation - 2004 BX: 6/2008 : Inflam. BX: 12/10, DX: 12/10 : SCC - LS tongue well dif. T2N1M0. 2/11 hemigloss + recon. : PND - 40 nodes - 39 clear. 3/11 - 5/11 IMRT 33 + cis x2, PEG 3/28/11 - 5/19/11 3 head, 2 chest scans - clear(fingers crossed) HPV-, No smoke, drink, or drugs, Vegan
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