, could I have your opinion/was: Enlarged lymph node

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I posted this message yesterday and got Elliot's reply which I appreciate very

much. I would also value having your opinion. Here's my message:

I have had a lymph node, near my right jaw, enlarged to about 2cm since right

before New Years. I saw a doctor only because my right ear was also messed up.

Now that doctor wants to excise this node due to my peritoneal breast cancer

mets history. I know a couple of things: 1) this is not a typical bc mets

spot, 2) it's not fixed and it's not rock hard, and 3) I wouldn't do chemo even

IF there was something bad in that node. I also know it's right near my carotid

artery and a bundle of facial nerves, neither of which do I want messed up! LOL

His thinking is that if it IS something bad, it's best to get that node out

before it spreads to other nodes. My question is, if chemo is not something

that I would consider, is there any benefit to having that node removed? Would

lightening the " tumor load " be of benefit

without the option of chemo?

Thank you for your input!

xxoo

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Hi ,

That sounds exactly like a lymph node that I've had for over two

years now. My oncologist doesn't think it's cancer related. Some

other kind of infection or sensitivity. It became enlarged at the

same time that I developed some mysterious night-time nasal

congestion. I still have both the congestion and the enlarged node

in my neck. (However, six months after the lymph node became

enlarged, we discovered my cancer had returned. But, the oncologist

doesn't think it's related.)

Hope this helps,

Wanda (not )

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> I posted this message yesterday and got Elliot's reply which I

appreciate very much. I would also value having your opinion.

Here's my message:

>

> I have had a lymph node, near my right jaw, enlarged to about 2cm

since right

> before New Years. I saw a doctor only because my right ear was also

messed up.

> Now that doctor wants to excise this node due to my peritoneal

breast cancer

> mets history. I know a couple of things: 1) this is not a typical

bc mets

> spot, 2) it's not fixed and it's not rock hard, and 3) I wouldn't

do chemo even

> IF there was something bad in that node. I also know it's right

near my carotid

> artery and a bundle of facial nerves, neither of which do I want

messed up! LOL

>

> His thinking is that if it IS something bad, it's best to get that

node out

> before it spreads to other nodes. My question is, if chemo is not

something

> that I would consider, is there any benefit to having that node

removed? Would

> lightening the " tumor load " be of benefit

> without the option of chemo?

>

> Thank you for your input!

>

> xxoo

>

>

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Supraclavicular lymph node metastasis from the abdomen is almost

always on the left. You would first palpate for Virchow's node in

that area. You didn't mention exactly what is troubling your right

ear. Yes, the two could be related. A biopsy or excision isn't

necessary at this time, but I do encourage you to seek a radiologist

who does ultrasound elastography.

At 11:07 AM 2/9/2008, you wrote:

>,

>I posted this message yesterday and got Elliot's reply which I

>appreciate very much. I would also value having your opinion. Here's

>my message:

>

>I have had a lymph node, near my right jaw, enlarged to about 2cm since right

>before New Years. I saw a doctor only because my right ear was also

>messed up.

>Now that doctor wants to excise this node due to my peritoneal breast cancer

>mets history. I know a couple of things: 1) this is not a typical bc mets

>spot, 2) it's not fixed and it's not rock hard, and 3) I wouldn't do

>chemo even

>IF there was something bad in that node. I also know it's right near

>my carotid

>artery and a bundle of facial nerves, neither of which do I want

>messed up! LOL

>

>His thinking is that if it IS something bad, it's best to get that node out

>before it spreads to other nodes. My question is, if chemo is not something

>that I would consider, is there any benefit to having that node removed? Would

>lightening the " tumor load " be of benefit

>without the option of chemo?

>

>Thank you for your input!

>

>xxoo

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