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40 year old diagnosed with biopsies with cancer has a grapefruit size ganglion in her chest. blood and bone cancer has been ruled out. any ideas.has had 3 different oncologist. still looking for cau?
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Biopsy provides Diag: The diagnosis is based on the biopsy and the location of the tumor. Sometimes the primary site can be occult and not obvious. We call such tumors, cancer of unknown primary(cup). Such tumors are also treatable particularly now that we have much better diagnostic tests, pointing to the origin of can. If your oncologists are procrastinating, go to a nearby cancer center and start your treatment asap.
Answered 3/8/2014
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Trust pathologist: Large cancers that first appear in the chest, especially the front, make take several days for the pathologist team to assign properly. Leave it to the pathology team, and to review the final report with the clinician. Three tricky ones are embryonal cell carcinoma, thymoma of any sort, and a tumor of nerve sheath origin.
Answered 3/9/2014
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