A relative has had a wide excision on a cancerous mole on his calf. At the same time, they took out 3 nodes to biopsy.
He's been told he has to wait 6 weeks for the results. Now, there is a chance that he's got the wrong end of the stick and the results will be there when he sees the consultant at his post-op check-up. But if he's right, is this a normal time to wait? And why?
I thought they could do a biopsy mid-surgery to tell if they needed to take more out, then and there.
The surgeon said, after his first op, that he was 80% sure he'd got all the cancer, and the second op, plus lymph nodes, was just to make sure, but 6 weeks is going to feel like a very long time.
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6 week wait for lymph node biopsy results?
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Thymeout · 28/04/2015 13:07
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