mpbser wrote:How the heck can it be determined if lung tumors are from the original colon adenocarcinoma or independent lung cancer? This mystifies me. My husband smokes cigars so who the heck knows if he wasn't going to get/got lung cancer anyway regardless of the colon->liver cancer he has/had? I wish I understood this devil that is cancer.
lovelife789 wrote:mpbser wrote:How the heck can it be determined if lung tumors are from the original colon adenocarcinoma or independent lung cancer? This mystifies me. My husband smokes cigars so who the heck knows if he wasn't going to get/got lung cancer anyway regardless of the colon->liver cancer he has/had? I wish I understood this devil that is cancer.
This was a question I used to have too.
Not sure what is genomic tumor test, may be it is the same thing I had. What the lab did is first they use microscope to see if they present a certain visible traits, but some types of lung tumors look quite similar to colon mets, so if under the microscope is not determinable, they will place the removed tumor in specific chemical dye. If the specimen presents a certain color then it would mean it is one of the two types of tumors.
For my case, it already looked like colon met at point of removal, it was confirmed by the color showed after chemical dye. English is not my first language, I hope it's understandable. I can recap my own path report where it mentions the chemical dye part if anybody needs.
Best of luck to Cured
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