So today I again met with the surgical oncologist at Univ of Fl Shands. He said that the last biopsy is indicative of either metastisis from original lobular breast cancer, lymphoma or liver cancer. Even though they got a lot more samples and did stains of what they got it is still not clear cut. So they are scheduling me for laparoscopic surgery of the lymph node to be done by the surgical oncologist. He will take out a large enough portion (which the endoscopy could only get small samples) that pathology can determine exactly what kind of cancer this is so we can then move on to treatment after healing from surgery.
I was hoping for a definitive answer but am not surprised that they need to do surgery for complete answer. So surgery will be scheduled in the next 2-3 weeks. I will have an overnite stay in the hospital and then home to heal and wait for an answer.
I am meeting with my medical oncologist today just to touch base with what’s going on. Any follow up treatment will be done by him here at home after surgery.
How long to recover from laparoscopic surgery? I am in really good health with weight, exercise, etc.
Has anyone else had to go through multiple test, etc to determine their final diagnosis?
So ready to get a final answer so I will know treatment plan.. Ggrrrrrrrr!