Having a cousin whose husband is a senior faculty/surgeon at NYU can have its advantages. We all got tired of waiting to hear the biopsy results, and the thought of having to wait ANOTHER week to find out what the outcome was when we met with the oncologist seemed daunting at the very least. So cousin Joseph went to work.
Short story: liver biopsy showed lesions are metastases of the breast cancer. THIS is what we were hoping for! (Ok, the miracle would have been for them to be benign but that would have been a stretch so this is a close enough mini-miracle.)
(Mom is quite possibly still crying with relief because the odds of the mastectomy actually needing to occur are very small now. We will try treatment first in the hopes of shrinking the tumors and slowing growth and spread. If that happens most likely, no mastectomy at all.)
July 30th we'll know what the plan of treatment is to be when we meet with the oncologist at NYU.
Until then we should all now have an easier weekend and front end of the week.
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