Cut long story short, I been in pain since January, now they found a 14mm cystic lesion on tail of pancreas, I'm on 2 different types of morphine and just recently discharged from hospital, my discharge letter says they going to review and discuss with mdt team, does that mean I have cancer, I also have 5 mm pulmonary nodule on my lung which I go back to get chest scan next month. Please help as I don't know what all this means.
Hi Sassy2
Welcome to our community though sorry to hear about what you are going through, your form of cancer is very different to the one my wife had but from what we went through I can really relate to the difficult of going through the process of diagnosis - cancer or not.
i had a quick look at what a cyctic lession is and from what I read it seems they can be benign or cancerous so that does not give a definitive answer. In terms of the lung with my wife they took a series of images and then they could work out what if anything was changing as things growing can be quite a good indicator.
MDT means multi-disciplinary team - this is where lots of different specialists get together to discuss all the data around your case and work out what the next step would be.
The pages on the main site here list all sorts of tests the doctors may do in order to get to a final diagnosis, for my wife's cancer hers was only finally diagnosed after a biopsy.
<<hugs>>
Steve
