Amen to all of this. I went to my doctor last year--a lump had appeared on my neck. That was the first day I heard the word "cancer." I didn't get a full diagnosis until about 10 weeks later (biopsies, scans, the works). It turned out to be a treatable (though incurable) form of lymphoma, stage 4. Those 10 weeks were the worst part of the whole ordeal. Chemo was a breeze by comparison...