Hi Everyone.
First post here so really hoping for some advice. I saw ENT after a 2 week referral Friday. I honestly wasn't expecting anything to come of it and nearly cancelled. Dr looked in my mouth, i have a swollen right tonsil, and instantly said he was concerned. He took 3 biopsies right there, and used a camera to look up my nose/down throat. Hes sending me for MRI and CT scan and said the lump will be cut out.
Now, am i fooling myself in thinking hes just being on the safe side?. Im 42, a heavy smoker, and ive already had bladder cancer in 2015. I did quit, but started again after a family tragedy.
If it is tonsil cancer, then it is!. But only symptom has been bit of a sore throat. No lump in neck. Although the lump is quite large and kind of solid.
Im a single parent to 4, and my youngest is 6 and has severe learning dissabilities. She needs a lot of care. He Dad was killed in a hit and run last Aprill and we are still coming to terms with that. Anyway, it was the Drs obvious concern that worried me.
Hi Vic.
Ray is spot on. I’m afraid it’s just a waiting game. I really hope it’s not cancer but your ENT consultant has to check.
If it is cure rates are in excess of 90%.
If you haven’t heard about the biopsy in two weeks, chase it up.
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
I wrote a blog about my cancer. just click on the link below
https://todaymycoffeetasteslikechristmasincostarica.com
They are looking for the extent of a possible cancer. Sometimes the cancer is bigger than you can visualise. Often tonsil cancer spreads to lymph nodes so they have to be checked too.
They check your chest with CT as well.
I had cancer in the tonsils at the base of my tongue rather than the throat.
They didn’t find any nodal spread so I avoided chemo.
They HAVE to check your chest though it is extremely rare for tonsil cancer to spread there.
I had two chest nodules but not cancerous.
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
I wrote a blog about my cancer. just click on the link below
https://todaymycoffeetasteslikechristmasincostarica.com
Daft question
Nothing is daft! You just ask away. Please leave Google alone though. It’s full of information that is alarmist and a lot of it out of date.
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
I wrote a blog about my cancer. just click on the link below
https://todaymycoffeetasteslikechristmasincostarica.com
