Good news, but WTF?
11 May 2021 08:34![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nwhikerIt. Is. NOT. Cancer.
They don't know what it is, but it's not cancer.
OMG, the relief. Now we can just deal with the dementia.
So. Growing "mass" on CT Scan. Abx started in case it was pneumonia. PET scan showed uptake, which indicated either malignancy or the very vague "inflammation". The doctors my sister talked to all had some weird theories, but it all came down to the basic fact that, despite it showing up suddenly, and growing quickly, neither of which are characteristic of lung cancer, that was the most likely what we were dealing with. There was no indication of anything else, so if it had been cancer, it would have been caught at possibly Stage I, which is like unheard of for lung cancer.
Biopsy was pushed back because mother got sick. It happened last Friday.
They told sister right after (only one person could go in) that the results were "indeterminate". Sister concluded that they'd found cancer and didn't want to be the ones who told her. Preliminary biopsy results said two things that stood out to me: they did not see any malignant cells AND the test they do for cancer was 'indeterminate' which from what I can tell means non-positive. That's when I started to get a little bit more optimistic, but I didn't share that with my siblings.
Biopsy report yesterday. It's glop. No, really: official diagnosis is "non-necrotizing granulomatous inflammation". GLOP.
Stains show it's probably not mycobacterium (aka TB), which was one concern, and probably not pneumocystis carinii, which was one possibility (which they're renamed). Etc.
GLOP.
They did see one thing in the biopsy that they usually see in heroin users. Need to tell my sis to get mom off the street drugs. LOL.
Major sigh of relief here. Also, my mother has been pissed off, and telling everyone there is nothing the matter with her. I think she understood that cancer was a possibility, but was insistent that everyone (us, doctors) were making a mountain out of a molehill. I'm sure she's crowing today. LOL.
Phew.
They don't know what it is, but it's not cancer.
OMG, the relief. Now we can just deal with the dementia.
So. Growing "mass" on CT Scan. Abx started in case it was pneumonia. PET scan showed uptake, which indicated either malignancy or the very vague "inflammation". The doctors my sister talked to all had some weird theories, but it all came down to the basic fact that, despite it showing up suddenly, and growing quickly, neither of which are characteristic of lung cancer, that was the most likely what we were dealing with. There was no indication of anything else, so if it had been cancer, it would have been caught at possibly Stage I, which is like unheard of for lung cancer.
Biopsy was pushed back because mother got sick. It happened last Friday.
They told sister right after (only one person could go in) that the results were "indeterminate". Sister concluded that they'd found cancer and didn't want to be the ones who told her. Preliminary biopsy results said two things that stood out to me: they did not see any malignant cells AND the test they do for cancer was 'indeterminate' which from what I can tell means non-positive. That's when I started to get a little bit more optimistic, but I didn't share that with my siblings.
Biopsy report yesterday. It's glop. No, really: official diagnosis is "non-necrotizing granulomatous inflammation". GLOP.
Stains show it's probably not mycobacterium (aka TB), which was one concern, and probably not pneumocystis carinii, which was one possibility (which they're renamed). Etc.
GLOP.
They did see one thing in the biopsy that they usually see in heroin users. Need to tell my sis to get mom off the street drugs. LOL.
Major sigh of relief here. Also, my mother has been pissed off, and telling everyone there is nothing the matter with her. I think she understood that cancer was a possibility, but was insistent that everyone (us, doctors) were making a mountain out of a molehill. I'm sure she's crowing today. LOL.
Phew.
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Date: 11 May 2021 20:22 (UTC)