Anyone with answers on tonsils

[darc77]

My 7 year old saw an ENT - he has a tumor on his tonsil and needs a tonsilectomy and biopsy STAT - what does all this mean? Is this rare, are these common?  It is only affecting one side, but both tonsils will be removed.  Help answer questions and worries about cancer, etc.....d

[darc77]

Blood tests are coming up normal for blood counts - so this and that he his healthy are good signs....So hopefully not lymphoma, but finding out this is rare and can mean lymphoma.  Also tissue at tonsil site looks healthy - so all pluses.  Surgery will be mid-February.

[joules1098]

Tonsils do have a reason to be there, but if there is any reason the Dr. wants them to be removed do it ASAP. The older you are the harder and longer the recovery is. My daughter is 25 and she just had hers out a few months ago. I had mine out when I was a kid and it was not a problem. If the tumor is cancer, then he will probably need more care than just removing his tonsils. It is a good thing they found it. The Dr.'s can do so much more now than they use to.  

[AnnieBrooke]

I had a tonsilectomy when a kid, and it was a total breeze for me.  I was 7.  So don't worry about your son and the surgery.  Don't know about the tumor, maybe the doctors don't know either until lab work after it is removed.

[Mumita]

I don't know if it could be cancer or not but if the doctor is recomending to get a tonsilectomy, then get it done, its better to correct tonsil issues when young than wait until they are bigger.
I've had tonsil issues my whole life, they just get inflamed because of an infection or another, but I never got a tonsilectomy and I wish I had when I was little.
This wont affect him later on, tonsilectomies used to be very very common, almost all kids used to get them taken out because they were "unnecessary" and got infected all the time.  Now they don't remove them as much because they'd rather stick you with antibiotics or steroids to bring them back to normal size.  But I'd rather a tonsilectomy.