Dear Dr., thank you for taking my question. My mother is 64 years old and in late February she experienced postmenapausal light bleeding for a couple of days. She immediately made an appointment with her gynecologist who did a D&C this week. He found a polyp, which he removed. He also found a strange mass which he described as "unlike anything I've seen in my 27 year career". He said it was shiny and smooth "like a bone", and in his words...appeared "florescent". He said he wasn't completely ruling out calcium deposits but he had never seen anything like this. He wasn't able to remove it (I don't know why) but he did remove a piece of it for a sample. He is having a biopsy done on the strange sample and the polyp. He also sent a sample to another kind of gynecologist for him to look at. He said that my Mom will need a hysterectomy and that if the sample is only calcium, he will do the hysterectomy here but if it is cancerous, he will have it done by a gynecologist at the state university medical center. We are very worried and I'm concerned by his statement that he had never seen anything like this before. Have you come across anything like this or do you have any thoughts or ideas on what this might be? If it is cancer, would the fact that my Mom went to Dr. at the first sign of a problem give us any hope that a hysterectomy would be able to catch the cancer (if that's what it is)? Any thoughts or opinions would be greatly appreciated.