Hi ichi,

Welcome to Cancer Chat. I'm sorry to hear of your situation and that you don't have much information. If you have further tests coming up then it sounds like they don't yet have all the information to be able to update you with, which was perhaps why you weren't getting any answers to your questions.

I appreciate this uncertainty is difficult. Try to take things a day at a time and where possible try to keep busy to help keep your mind off any worries ahead of your appointment.

If you'd like to talk to someone in the meantime, you are welcome to give our nurses a call. You can reach them on freephone 0808 800 4040 - Monday-Friday, 9-5.

Wishing you all the best,

Ben
Cancer Chat Moderator

I'm not surprised you're scared and bewildered at your diagnosis who wouldn't be ,its a terrible shock to be told that ,I agree with Ben that the reason he didn't answer your direct questions is because I doubt at this stage they will know anymore than what they told you ,I wouldn't be reading into the fact your next appointment isn't until 20th Feb ,you probably know how busy they are ,at the same time I doubt they would leave you for so long if they thought things would get worse in that timescale ,whatever you do don't go to Google for information its really outdated and as we know great new treatments are available in the last few years so try to stay as positive as possible ,have a look at other peoples experiences with Tonsil cancer by typing it in the search forum above .

thank you Jenny, yes your advice is spot on, the first thing i did was google, which makes everything worse! may i ask how you are doing?, as you are on here i would presume that you are dealing with some type of cancer also, thank you i shall read up on here with other peoples experiences, i have just been worried because my gland is the size of a medium sized apple and fear it has spread to other parts of my body, the cancer seems to grow so fast, all because a stupid dentist botched a tooth extraction, thank you also for taking time out to reply to me, it is appreciated, it does help knowing others are going through the same, but at the same time i am sad that others are having to go through the same thing