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[mnmkeller]

This is even more confusing as your description makes it sound like hepatic steatosis (fatty infiltration of the liver) and should be easily separated from cancer by the studies already done.

Unless she is trying for some trial medications or has some indecisive Drs involved I'm not sure what the delay is over. I will also say I have seen some Drs get hung up on something and require what others consider extreme proof before making a decision.

I'm sorry this is dragging out for you and her.

[Aragorn243]

Yeah, I don't know. As I said before, this scenario is exactly what she went through in 2009. Multiple tests, each more precise than the last, all confirming cancer. Multiple radiologists, surgeons, doctors looking at the scans and all coming to the same conclusion. They even got consults from different hospitals back then. Only the biopsy cleared her. This time they even knew ahead of time she had a fatty liver and that this diagnosis was made in 2009. They said it is very rare but does occasionally happen with whatever type infiltration she has.

[Bob Womack]

My father went through something similar. He had a lesion show up on a lung X-ray when he was an adult and his doctors began ramping up into high gear with multiple tests and a possible diagnosis of lung cancer, despite the fact that my father knew he had had histoplasmosis as a child. They finally decided they needed to operate and do exploratory surgery. Who finally brought sense to the process was a good friend of my father who was the foremost radiologist in the region. When my father's friend heard what was going on he asked my father to come into his department at a hospital before business hours at no charge. He checked out my father and his imaging and found only evidence of scarring from his childhood histoplasmosis. Apparently the doctors felt they couldn't ignore the imaging of scarring without fully clearing my father through all those tests and surgery... for liability reasons.

Bob

[CINDERS]

I pray that all will go well and you can resume your normal activities, I've seen enough of my family going south to last me until I go flat, he's had one go at me and I got hit but squeaked through, I remain positive your wife will be in the clear.

[MSW2]

@Aragorn243. I hope everything works out for you and your wife. Mine passed away from breast cancer in 2019.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Opritve term practicing medicine.Stay strong.

[Aragorn243]

I'm just super concerned that this delay due to the liver is going to allow her breast cancer to spread which totally nullifies any real treatment for her. I'm trying to trust in what they are doing but it's tough. I lost my mother to ovarian cancer when I was six. Totally unrelated and way back when there was no real treatment for cancer but still bothersome.

[mnmkeller]

It is unlikely that a week or two day will affect the outcome. It is frustrating to wait but look at is a pit stop to make adjustments not a black flag to stop.

Some of these treatments are very dependent on whether there is anything to the liver or not. If there is liver involvement you are suddenly fighting a two front war and everything changes.

[Aragorn243]

I get that but I'm 99.9% sure there is no liver involvement. As I said before, this is exactly what they did with her 13 years ago. They swore it was cancer then right up to the biopsy results.

[Aragorn243]

The PET scan has been cancelled for now. The insurance companies will not approve it until after the liver biopsy results are known which fully makes sense and I questioned from the beginning. It is not necessary if she does not have liver cancer which I do not believe she does.