Thank you; everyone for the info and well wishes.

We were told by the surgeon that the FNA is not accurate enough; and I know when they first did a biopsy to find the cancer in the first place; the needle biopsy showed nothing so they did an open one (local freezing and cut it).

PETs: How long do you feel after treatment should one be done? We were told you can't do one until 2 months after treatment and it's been just a bit over that now. (June 2 finished)

My Dad developed another sore throat and horse voice a couple of weeks ago and that's been worrying him. The dr's just say it's from the rad. We figured it was from the air conditioning.

Well my Dad is recovering from the treatment and doing pretty good. Heck he's down 50bls (but had extra weight on him to begin with). He's still a bit tired; as I'm sure you all know oh too well.

It's upsetting because they didn't mention surgery to us and last week when we got the results that the tumour is gone and nodes shrunk; my Dad was very happy and we celebrated. Now they tell us about the surgery so we are just a bit upset and confused.

The dissection is both sides. You read so much and it scares you; but as I found when I did my research on the treatment, it's best to talk to people that have been thru it; rather then all Googling ha.....Some articles say do the wait and see approach. Some say remove them; some say get a PET; some say PETs are not that great.......oh it's so confusing at times. And then the dr's say do surgery but that they have no idea if it's necessary or not.

Thanks for listening!
I'll share this info with my folks.

Wondering what is everyones age who had it done?

Lisa
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feel free to email me with any info that you think would be helpful; and I'll check back here for threads.

What a great site!