Hi everybody. I have been reading all the posts here for quite a number of months now. I am a 43 year old female and several months ago I went to the doctor because I happened to see this round, raised lump on the side/top of my tongue. She said it looked like lymphatic tissue not to worry. Instead of not worrying, I decided to educate myself and go online and came across this forum, so I took most of the advice here and went and saw my dentist, who agreed with my MD. Still not quite comfortable with his diagnosis I decided to see an ENT who also said did not look cancerous. I felt very confident that it was not, so did not immediately follow-up on it with a biopsy. I figured how can ALL 3 of them be wrong. So last week I started some dental work, went again today and mouth was sore so just decided to look inside. What do I see, but the lump still on my tongue and on the side-no change however, just behind it, I see this round lump as though its a tonsil, however, I had my tonsils removed when I was 3 years old. This brings me back to this forum. I know what youre all going to say, go get a biopsy to see what it is BEFORE I start to panic. Just wondering if any of you had such things happen. I have been going through all kinds of blood work and CBC with Differentail comes up good except for one or two liver enzymes being a lil too high, so if it were cancerous would there be some indication in my bloodwork. Also had a neck x-ray about 2 weeks ago looking at my spine, sideways view, frontal and even had me open up my mouth which I found very strange and was told everything looks normal. True they werent looking at my tongue, but would something have been found or at least suspicious. Also last year I was told I had a nodule on my thyroid, so went to an endocrinologist in Jan. for a f/u and he said that the nodule has not change still 3mm. come back in a year. I guess what Im grasping at here is, if I did have tongue or throat cancer, would it have shown up on the thyroid sonogram or the neck x-ray. Any opinions would be appreciated. Thank you all in advance, and God Bless.