Cooper,

I’m glad you finally found a doctor that is taking you seriously, and noted several things that hopefully are minor, and goes away on their own or from minor treatment!

I’m not saying it’s the same, everyone is different, and I had other indications when diagnosed in 2009, but a swollen lymph node was my major complaint. My cancer was not visible by scope of the tonsil. I had a swollen lymph node. There was suspicion by CT, and PET scan, which proved positive for cancer with a FNAB, fine needle aspirational biopsy, of the swollen lymph node, and then a biopsy of the throat where the cancer was found in the tonsil. When they did the biopsy under anesthesia the cancer was found in tonsil just under the mucosa, if that’s correct, and a biopsy of the sample proved posits for squamous cell carcinoma.

I hope yours is not the same, but wanted to let you know. Oh, I had a blocked salivary gland under the tongue, which was taken care of during the surgical biopsy, and plugged temporarily. That was painful, and took three weeks to heal. By that time I was scheduled for indication Chemo.