Hi there,
I walked into the meeting with the surgeon today to get my husband's biopsy and CT scan results with a hopeful yet frightened heart. Although his doctor did say that 'even it it's benign it has to come out' he also rushed him into tests and talked about the possibility of chemo and radiation and of course the nurse told me privately that it was cancer and that the CT scan would show if it's spread elsewhere and it was in a good place for removal. She said they can tell by sight that it's cancer.
So we sit down and the surgeon said to my husband, "Why do you think you're here?" Mike said "Because I have a tumor". And the doctor said, "Okay, we'll discuss that later" and he took my husband's medical history which took a while due to my husband's multi medical issues. Then he asked me to leave so he could examine him which took about 2 seconds.
Then he said that the CT scan showed nothing - the tumor did not show up at all and that the biopsies showed NO cancer. But he said that the tumor might just be small and that it could still be cancerous if the biopsies were taken from the outside of it because there still could be cancer at the base of it. So everything was inconclusive so his strategy is to re-do the colonoscopy next Thursday so he can take a look at it himself and see if he can take out the tumor or mass and/or do some biopsies. Because of my husband's heart issues, he wants to spare him surgery so if he can't take it out he said one of his colleagues might be able to without surgery.
So that's our next step - another colonoscopy next Thursday.
Wow - has this happened to anyone else that the CT scan shows nothing?
So I'm now cautiously optimistic that if it is cancer it might be an early stage????
Any thoughts?
Sue