My Mum has had some test results back that could indicate cancer- raised blood calcium on two occasions that isn’t caused by her parathyroid gland. She’s also lost about a stone and half quite quickly and had a DVT, but about 5 weeks ago she became very unwell with a bad chest infection and ate basically nothing for about a fortnight, then hurt her knee and wore a leg brace continually/barely moved her leg for about 4 days. This was before the DVT, so I imagine there is a chance that could have caused it.
She’s been googling (as we all have, to be honest) and she’s become fairly convinced that she’s got cancer and that is the cause of the DVT, the weight loss and the high calcium. I’m aware it could be, but apparently none of the doctors she’s seen have mentioned cancer to her. Are they not supposed to tell you if they think that’s what it might be? I have been referred under the 2WW before and the GP honestly told me that it could be cancer, but that wasn’t what she thought it was.
She has had a CT scan, so we are waiting for the results of that now. I am very scared, so any advice would be much appreciated.