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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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    Yes, my husband had laprascopic surgery for achalasia and when the put the probes in they saw a large mass covering half of his liver.  they aborted the surgery, took biopsy of liver and stomach and when they came to see my husband after the surgery they said sorry but its cancer.  i was under the same impression that you were - how could they know right?  We have an appointment on monday to discuss results its been three weeks of waiting for biopsy and scans.  I am very confused too - i dont know what to expect on monday

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    Yes, my husband had laprascopic surgery for achalasia and when the put the probes in they saw a large mass covering half of his liver.  they aborted the surgery, took biopsy of liver and stomach and when they came to see my husband after the surgery they said sorry but its cancer.  i was under the same impression that you were - how could they know right?  We have an appointment on monday to discuss results its been three weeks of waiting for biopsy and scans.  I am very confused too - i dont know what to expect on monday

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