Hi Paula,
I agree with the other posters that you should get a second opinion but would also like to offer a word of warning about biopsies. I had 3 surgeries last year for two cancers in my mouth with clear margins (the last surgery was a partial mandibulectomy in September). No rad or chemo was deemed necessary by my ENT and his cohorts on the tumour board (which he chairs) and all looked good until March when a lump appeared under my chin just two weeks after a 'clear' check up. I went back to the ENT and was sent for a CT scan which confirmed an enlarged 'suspicious' 1.8 cm node.

I then had a PET/CT scan and a fine needle biopsy which both were 'negative' for cancer. No uptake in the node and no cancer was found in the samples from the needle aspiration. Due to the results of the original CT scan my surgeon wanted to remove the node anyway so I had surgery on the 12th May. The node was removed and a frozen section taken and sent to pathology while I was still under. It was almost 3cm in size and there was extracapsular spread. It was cancerous so a selective neck dissection was done and 48 further nodes removed (all were found to be free of cancer). I am now having chemo and radiation.

I guess the moral to my story is get as many tests done as possible and don't make any decisions based solely on biopsy results - they are just a sample and the cancer could be potentialy be missed.

Good Luck!

Sue