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I am googling again. The intertubes are being both helpful and not. Helpful in that everything I can find says it would be extremely unusual for this to be ovarian cancer, one of the things they will be looking for next week, and the worst possible finding since if it was that and it's all the way up in my axillary nodes, I should start planning my memorial vid show now. I know why they want to test for it anyway, but it's not weighing quite so heavily, since all the lymph nodes it woulda got to first seem to be peachy.
Not helpful in that it's giving me very little denial wiggle room that this is happening in some form, and yes, almost certainly breast cancer since that's the thing that went ping on further examination of the samples. The false positive rate is nearly nonexistent in detecting malignancy from an axillary lymph node needle biopsy. I was sort of hoping since they misread the initial findings, that meant I had a chance of them taking it all back. The Hodgkin's thing makes sense since I presented a lot like Hodgkin's, and I had a negative mammogram, so it was the most likely source for any cancer cells they saw before they started doing staining and more indepth examinatinon and stuff. Unless the lab is utterly incompetent (and I am not above hoping for shoddy workmanship here, if my pathologist got like..mostly D's in medical school that would be AWESOME), yeah.
Mostly just babbling here.
Not helpful in that it's giving me very little denial wiggle room that this is happening in some form, and yes, almost certainly breast cancer since that's the thing that went ping on further examination of the samples. The false positive rate is nearly nonexistent in detecting malignancy from an axillary lymph node needle biopsy. I was sort of hoping since they misread the initial findings, that meant I had a chance of them taking it all back. The Hodgkin's thing makes sense since I presented a lot like Hodgkin's, and I had a negative mammogram, so it was the most likely source for any cancer cells they saw before they started doing staining and more indepth examinatinon and stuff. Unless the lab is utterly incompetent (and I am not above hoping for shoddy workmanship here, if my pathologist got like..mostly D's in medical school that would be AWESOME), yeah.
Mostly just babbling here.