what are the symptoms of throat or thyroid cancer? Are those symptoms long or short term? My dad has a swollen lymph node and the biopsy comes back tomorrow.

Throat cancer and thyroid cancer are two very different types of cancer, though, both involve the same part of the human body.

The biopsy results will provide your father and his physician with the information needed to determine the cause of the swollen lymph node.
Hopefully, it will be noncancerous.

To answer your question about the symptoms of both types of cancer, I am referring you to the
Thyroid Cancer Page
https://www.empowher.com/condition/thyroid-cancer/definition
Throat Cancer Page
https://www.empowher.com/condition/throat-cancer

Wishing you and your father the best,

Maryann