Hi my name is Linda and my son had a Cat scan and they found a tumor in his pancreas 2.4 cm early April. He went to the ER with severe stomach pain in Jan and after a cat scan then they said he had a nodule on his right lobe and his lymph nodes were swollen around his stomach. They put him on s three month return for s follow up and that was when they discovered the tumor. Why would they put him on a three month wait list. When they did the second cat scan in April they found the tumor plus it had matasticized to the lining of his abdomen and spots in the lungs but not sure if it was cancer.
It took his PCP almost two weeks before he heard from a surgeon and after eating that long the surgeon said he needed a biopsy of the tumor. It took another two weeks before we could get a biopsy done. Came back with stage 2 in his biopsy. We made an appt at Cleveland Clinic that took another two weeks and by the time we got there they told us he had stage 4, inoperable and terminal and all they could offer was comfort and chemo to hopefully delay the cancer. Now his PCP finally gets him in with an oncologist after CC scheduled his port almost three weeks out abd he was getting a biopsy on his abdomen spots. So it’s been hurry up and wait when to meet his treatment should have been managed better and we could be seeing different results!