Year and a half still worried
Hello all sorry to bother you and intrude on more serious problems. But would love some opinions on my story. Worry wort here! About a year and a half ago I was deemed suspicious after a fine needle biopsy on an enlarged node In my neck. At the time no symptoms present and even up till today no symptoms really. I went through a year of follow ups and tests such as multiple
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21?
At age 21, the chance of any lymphoma outside of Hodgkin's is very low. Even Hodgkin's is rare. Sadly, all of the testing you have received is of little value. The standard for lymphoma is having an entire lymph node surgically removed for competent parthological examination. Nothing less is reliable. Any needle biopsy is, by definition, cheap and unrelaible. They can very easily miss lymphoma because the sample they provide is so tiny.
However, a year and a half? Whatever it is, it is not an emergency. Hodgkin's moves much much faster than that.
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