Question: Hello We have a worry about our toddler 3y8mo old girl. She has had swollen lymph nodes now for nearly 2 months. They are on both sides of the neck, more or less where the jaw ends and, little under the jaw. We have shown it to the doctors, they have touched it and looked at the throat and saying this is connected with the tonsils which are also enlarged quite a lot. Also one oncologist touched them and said that these swollen glands are nothing serious pinpointing to the fact that they have somewhat shrinked in size and they are oval shaped. Yet there have been no further tests. When it started out one of those nodes was at least 2cm in size but now it is less though not disappeared. This all happened with a serious cold, cough, etc. the rest of the symptoms are gone, not the nodes. Now she has got another cold, this time with no fever, just some cough and running nose and sore throat and it seems to me that they are kind of back again, hard to say if they are larger but not smaller either than before the previous cold went away. Although smaller than they were at the peak. Do you see also this as normal or if not then what tests should we look for (ultrasound?). We are of course worried of lymphoma and other serious stuff, people keep saying that this condition is OK with smaller childer. Yet the longevity of this makes to worry. Can this be that directly connected with the elarged tonsils and colds coming up - going away? With best regards This probably to explain better the location of swollen glands. We can feel th under the skin in back of the ears, under the chin and lower jaw as a swollen oval little mass. XXXX

Is this meaning there is a concern of cancer? There are two nodes only one on both sides.