 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Amanda,
some conditions like peritonsillar abcess (PTA) can take months of antibiotics to cure. It just doen't feel like cancer to me but you are wise to get a definitive diagnosis. Cancer typically will not produce a fever or elevated WBC. The treatment can, but generally not the disease. I had bloodtests done as part of my differential diagnosis and my numbers were perfect. I also had no lymph node involvement at all. 5mm is pretty small, they can't detect regions of interest smaller then 2mm with scanning devices.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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