Dad just diagnosed

Hi 

Firstly welcome to the forum and an apology as i missed your post . I am sorry to hear about your dad . That’s quite unusual to be inconclusive and not picked up but the surgeons can normally tell from the appearance on the day if they think it has features of concern . 
I am going to tag in Hayleyc89 as her husband has just had this procedure and might be able to talk you through the relevant information.

My own mum had a right sided one and they were able to rejoin the bowel . After a period of recovery in hospital she was able to come home and her bowel has never been a big issue once it got going again . She was careful what she ate initially but quickly regained control and can eat most things as she did before .

Inconclusive biopsies do happen . Sometimes just a failure in procedure and sometimes it just does not yield enough info . The ct scan can sometimes happen too but again a bit more unusual but given the surgeon has visually seen it and is concerned I would think there is cause to listen to that aspect .

How is your dads general health ? 
Hope it all goes smoothly and sorry for the late reply once again .

Court 

Hi. My husbands cancer was found in CT scan then confirmed by colonoscopy he had 6 rounds of chemotherapy oxalaplatin,irinotecan and 5fu he had a left hemicolectomy on Monday and is recovering really well hopefully home tomorrow or Friday they also took lymph nodes from the area we don't knownhow many as yet we should find out when we receive he's pathology report he does have to have further mop up chemotherapy. My husbands tumor was 8cm long on removal and that's after shrinkage from chemotherapy the outlook is looking very positive thankfully. I wish you all the best

Hi Janey A,

I was told my biopsy, though the cells had shown changes, they hadn’t turned ‘nasty’ (had become cancerous... The CT scan didn’t pick it up nor did the MRI scan. It was only after my surgery (when the surgeon visited me the next morning in hospital) told me he thought it DID look like cancer. He explained that a biopsy only shows a very small amount & if a different section was removed it may have shown a different result. (This made sense to me) 

The pathology came back as early stage cancer with 2 out of the 19lymph nodes also being affected (which meant chemotherapy just in case)

I was prepared for the result as I trusted the surgeons experience in knowing what cancerous cells looked like (as opposed to non-cancerous)

I hope your dad gets good results & wish you both well,

Suzy