Hi Vixx,

I just thought that I would drop by to hopefully reassure you about a couple of questions that you asked.  With regard to the worry that the gp put suspected cancer on the referral, they have to put that on all 2 week referrals, that is whether they really consider it likely or not, if they had not put that comment your sisters referral, she would likely be waiting months to be seen.  I have been seen on 4 x 2 week referrals before that all stated 'suspected cancer' and they turned out to be not cancer.  With regard to the nurses comment when the biopsy was done, yes sometimes the doctors and nurses will say nothing at all, but equally sometimes they will try to reassure you or equally try to prepare you if they do think that it looks suspicious.  Both my sister and my mum were told at biopsy stage, that the doctors were expecting it to come back as cancer. They do see both benign and cancerous lumps all of the time, so they can have a good idea by looking at it, but unfortunately the only way for diagnoses is the results of the biopsy, which is the difficult time of waiting.

I am afraid I have no idea about the 'sticky cells' thing.

Your sister is lucky to have you there with her for support, I really hope that it does turn out to be an infection or something benign.

Best wishes

Annie