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would a doctor say you have cancer before biopsy results ?

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Hi there

My Mum is currently in hospital. She has been there for two weeks. She has blood clots on both lungs and pain in her stomach, enlarged Lymph nodes in lungs and stomach. They did an Endoscopy on her stomach a week ago and tissue was taken for biopsy. They said the biopsy results would be back in two weeks time. Two days after the endoscopy, two doctors have told my Mum they 'think' she has either Lymphatic cancer or stomach cancer. How can they say this to someone without biopsy results ? Has anybody else had this happen to them ? She is going for a PET scan next tuesday.

Thanks for any advice 

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    My best friend has terminal cancer and when she was diagnosed each technician after several scans said she'd get the results in 2 weeks which tbh i think is just their standard reply. She got calls from the hospital the same day or the next day saying they were sure it was cancer so yes - i think they can be pretty sure.

    However my mother in law was told on the phone she had ovarian cancer. She did but it wasn't classic ovarian cancer - she had carcinoid syndrome affecting her ovary so the diagnosis was kind of right but didn't turn out to be quite what they thought x

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    My best friend has terminal cancer and when she was diagnosed each technician after several scans said she'd get the results in 2 weeks which tbh i think is just their standard reply. She got calls from the hospital the same day or the next day saying they were sure it was cancer so yes - i think they can be pretty sure.

    However my mother in law was told on the phone she had ovarian cancer. She did but it wasn't classic ovarian cancer - she had carcinoid syndrome affecting her ovary so the diagnosis was kind of right but didn't turn out to be quite what they thought x

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