It's been a while now and plenty of visits to the hospital after what feels like a full round of scans we're moving forward. Scan wise I've now had various MRI's, CT's, PET-CT, Gamma Scan (Octreotide & MIBG) and finally a trip to the Endoscopy department and whilst we know where the growth is they are still not 100% sure what it is so the next thing to do is to remove it. This entails a fairly long (6 hour) operation where they'll open me up and remove my spleen and 40% of my pancreas. It's then 7 days in hospital followed by a few weeks rest at home. Once it's out they'll be able to tell me if whatever it is is cancerous or not, apparently there's a 1/6 chance it isn't. At least whatever it is will be removed from me at that point and we can move on from there. As usual all of my appointment have been at Kings College Hospital in SE London and as usual ALL of the staff have been fantastic.
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