Possible Thyroid Cancer??

In late September, a lump appeared on my neck and grew very rapidly over the course of a few hours, my GP instructed me to go straight to A&E where after seven hours of struggling to breathe and swallow they told me it was a throat infection and to go home. Early October my GP managed to get me an appointment in ENT, where I was put on the suspected head and neck cancer pathway. I had an ultrasound and biopsy in mid October that showed 5.5cm nodule on right thyroid, and biopsy came back as thy 3a, inconclusive. Since then I've been into A&E three times for breathing and swallowing issues, as well as dealing with other symptoms, and had another biopsy on the 8th December, for which I still haven't had any results for. Do the results taking so long mean its more likely to be bad news? I know its the holiday season but its been 26 days and my last results came back in 10 days. 

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  • I wouldn't think so. I can't see why bad news would take any longer than good news. When I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, I got the results a week after the biopsy and they clearly knew two days before that, because I got a phone call asking me to get the scan I'd had done sent on to them (the fun of our health care system here in Ireland where so many things are run privately). It's more likely to just be due to people being on holiday, out sick, etc.

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  • I wouldn't think so. I can't see why bad news would take any longer than good news. When I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, I got the results a week after the biopsy and they clearly knew two days before that, because I got a phone call asking me to get the scan I'd had done sent on to them (the fun of our health care system here in Ireland where so many things are run privately). It's more likely to just be due to people being on holiday, out sick, etc.

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