My mom went in for a core-needle biopsy on an abnormal growth... it took forever for her to get the appointment because it's not a "normal" area for a mass to show up (her urethra!) and they wanted two different doctors to look at it.
My mom doesn't seem worried at all, but she's good about sheltering her concerns from us kids... At first I was worried because just from reading online, it seems that urethral cancer does not have a high success rate.
However, those worries were put to rest by the oncologist who did the biopsy... his exact words to me was that I could "stop worrying" because he'd "felt the mass, and it just doesn't feel like at all like it's cancerous. It just has the 'feel' of a plain old benign fat mass, like what would be found anywhere else in the body. In that case after the biopsy confirms it as benign, we'll just take it out no problem."
So I stopped worrying... but now I'm worried AGAIN! He said the pathology report should be back in a week, and it's been 12 days and they're not back yet and they can't tell us when they'll be done. I have read online that pathology reports can take as little as 24 hours, and only really complicated ones could take up to 5 business days.. but 12 DAYS? Is this a bad sign??
Thank you for your insight.