Dino, I am waiting to go to hospital to have a biopsy because my dentist found something that he thought might be cancer and sent me to an oral surgeon who thinks it needs a biopsy. I feel fine, fit as a fiddle, can't even see the thing that they are worried about myself. I was a sufferer of tonsillitis during my teens though and that was a different story. I was chronically ill. Of course it is important to consult a doctor or dentist if you are concerned about something, and to follow up on any treatment or procedures that they recommend .... but as people keep saying, there are many, many causes for these symptoms that are not cancer. I will pray that neither you nor I do have it. I am truly inspired by the people on this forum, but I do not want to have cancer myself.