Tumour testing

Posted by shell from Canada @shelleyderish, Jul 29 2:44pm

My husband had liver biopsy metastasize pancreatic cancer We were told it was cancer but oncologist and cancer clinic have not told us the profiling. Reading it myself says strong positive staining for pancytokeratin and CK7. There is diffuse weak staining for CDX-2. Staining for CK20, TTF-1, NKX3-1, PAX-8 and GATA-3 are negative. Any idea what this means ??
We have appt with oncologist this week. Any advise what we should be asking ?

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Aug 6 2:00pm

@shelleyderish, what did you learn at the appointment with the oncologist?

shell from Canada | @shelleyderish | Aug 6 6:38pm

In reply to @colleenyoung "@shelleyderish, what did you learn at the appointment with the oncologist?" + (show)

We learned that in Canada molecular tumour
Testing is not done unless you pay for it. So we have gone that route so waiting for results In the meantime he has more embolisms in lungs and caused a heart attack …
But out of hospital now. He is a complicated case … heart issues from childhood , pulmonary aneurism , Pulmonary stenosis, ileostomy (30 yrs ago) and now pancreatic cancer …. But keeps going 🤷‍♀️hoping for some positive news tomorrow