Hello all! Happy Passover/Easter! I had the Mediastinoscopy yesterday. Surgeon confirmed the large lymph node that lit up on PET scan is cancerous. He did multiple biopsies on both the right and left side so I should have results in a few days. Very sore throat and neck (he did cut along the same scar I have from thyroidectomay 50 years ago)! He will confer with Onco and me to go over next steps. As I said earlier, if it's only in the one node and has not spread, then surgery might be an option to remove the mass and the lymph node. They are suggesting a short term of chemo/immunotherapy before any surgery to shrink what's there. So...if all goes well, surgery can be an option. If it's attacked more lymph nodes, then surgery will NOT be an option and we will proceed with chemo/radiation.
Sandy