Hi,

Hopefully somebody can help make things a little clearer. I'm going to talk in bullet points because otherwise it will go on for ever.

- dad was having troubles with his stomach, went to doctors who referred him for a check for bowel cancer.

- has stool sample checked and blood was found, send him for the thing (forgot the word but the camera up back passage) and all comes back clear. Somehow along the way they found out he had a shadow on his lung of some sort.

- has CT scan and they think he may have asbestosis.

- another CT scan 4 months later shows whatever it is has worsened to they start thinking it may be Mesothelioma.

- PET scan is recommended, once that's done it comes back and the consultant takes them into a room and says he does infact have Mesothelioma and has 12-18m to live. Orders a biopsy to confirm.

- has biopsy done, 3 samples taken and all come back clear.

doctor now claims they're doing a sit and wait approach till the next scan in January.

I don't know what to think anymore. It's dragged on for so long I don't know if I'm going to loose my dad and we will have less time together because of all this and all of us being unsure.

They have put it down to, for now, pleural thickening of the lung due to asbestos with pleural effusion on one of the lungs or something along those lines.

Any advice (except wait it out till January because the waiting and me not knowing much about all this is killing me)

Thanks x