Possible lymphoma

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Hi all, my husband has a groin lump, night sweats and a raised ldh blood result. His GP referred him to hospital on a 2 week wait pathway who promptly booked a ct scan which he had last Friday. At the same time they booked an appointment with haematology. The appointment came through today but is not for another 2 and a half weeks. The appointment was made on the same day as the scan was booked so the ct results would not have been known. Would they likely call and bring forward the appointment if the ct scan was reviewed and concerning or otherwise? Or is this kind of wait the normal? I know 2 and a half weeks is not a long time but it feels an age when that is all either of us is thinking about. I'm sure my expectations are out of touch but things are feeling very tense and emotional at the moment

I hope there will be good news and will be thinking of you.
I think it depends in some circumstances about the demand on the services. I know of 1 lymphoma diagnosis (family member) where the CT scan was not for 3 weeks after the GP referral despite the urgent pathway, and one with a different kind of tumour where that was roughly the norm between scan and blood tests. Yes, it feels a very long time.
What did then happen in the case of my family member was that the tests had to identify precisely the type of lymphoma to be able to determine the most effective treatment combination, as there are quite a few variants, and nothing could interfere with that in the meantime - in fact, the patient had to be admitted to hospital post-CT but before the blood tests but could only be stabilised and cared for there, nothing additional that might have affected that scheduled finding-out process 10 days later.
The good news is that things look much better and more controlled now, with the treatment which certainly does seem to have been tailored to the situation (5 months on).

Thank you, I am hoping that they will give us good news but it's hard to ignore the red flags staring us in the face. He is only 34 but I've seen that lymphoma does tend to affect 20-40 year old group.

The wait is normal. CT scans take about 2 weeks. Those will come back just before the appointment and it will give them a bit of time to discuss him in the MDT if necessary, which is the weekly meeting where they discuss patients they are currently seeing. Then they’ll be ready for the next steps when he comes in.