What does this mean?

Hi Glass Not Full,

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Hi Glass Not Full,

Welcome to the Macmillan Online Community. I’m Kirstine, one of the information nurses here at the Support Line. Ordinarily we don’t get the chance to reply to these messages over holiday periods, but we had an opportunity and I’m glad to be able to offer a reply for you today.

I can understand that you will have worries about your scan findings while you wait for a more detailed assessment from a Urologist. It’s difficult waiting to find out what is happening with a health issue and natural that you would like to understand this better today. The difficulty for us, however, is that we can’t know what this means for you exactly. Sometimes the phrase ‘multilocular’ does refer to a benign cystic condition, but it is possible there could be something else going on. Only the Urologist with access to all your health information and scan reports can offer an informed opinion on this for you. They might be confident on a diagnosis from the images, or they might want to sample some cells through a biopsy to get further clarity.

We would always counsel people experiencing the uncertainty  of waiting for results to try not to think too far ahead about the many possibilities. Try to stay in the moment and focus only on the facts you know to be true. Keeping busy, looking after your general health and wellbeing, eating and drinking healthily, taking some exercise as tolerated, and doing things you enjoy can be a good focus to have whilst waiting to be seen for any health issue.

I hope this finds you feeling well today, but of course, if you felt your health was changing or you had any new or worsening symptoms, you should seek to speak to a doctor sooner via 111.

Wishing you the very best with your upcoming appointment.

Kind regards,

Kirstine - Macmillan

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