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by trinity1225, Apr 17, 2008 04:05PM
I really want to know if this can be just a fatty tumor? My mom is 75 years old with ashma, there is a family history of cancer, not sure what type. She was told because of the density, it had to be a fatty tumor?? A doctor who admitted her after day surgery suggested she had ignored signs and symptoms for too long, ask her alot of questions about family cancer history. the Dr. who ordered biopsy is a heart and lung specialist. They said they should have results of biopsies last night or today maybe not all results but they could tell us if this is cancer or not. My difficulty is that being in denial is standard practice and I can not cope in denial, for years nobody mentioned the big fat pink elephant called Huntingtons, On father's side. How long does it take to get paliminary results of biopsy. She had to have 5 or 6 taken and I guess there was more than one sight. We were only told, they got enought tissues with needle biopsy to diagnose. Also, the doctor has already said surgery would be difficult and too hard on her, but that raidiation would be an option. Again I ask, do fatty tumors attach to bone heart and grow in and outside of lung at great speads? Is radiation therapy used to treat?
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It would be better to discuss the specifics with your doctor.
Tumors may be cancer or may not be cancer.
Cancers arising from fat, liposarcomas have a variety of subtypes with different behaviors. There is a predilection for lung involvement, bone invasion is relatively uncommon for these types of tumors in general.
There is a role for radiation, it must be remembered however that radiation is a modality that provides local and limited areas as there is ceiling dose to the total amount of radiation that can be used. Hence, selecting which areas to apply the radiation and for what goals (is it to control pain? Is it to slow down tumor growth? Is it to control bleeding over the site?) would need to be discussed thoroughly.
Non-cancerous tumors may have unrestricted growth, but generally will not involve other organs like the lung. The bone may be destroyed due to the unabated growth. For this, radiation would help slow down/arrest the tumor growth. This may not be what we are dealing with if there is definite lung involvement.
Stay positive.