Connie,
We go to the Doctors on the 7th to find out all this information. I am going to request that I be given a copy of the pathology report. Since his incision was so long (70 staples in both incision sites) they are keeping in his staples longer than usual. His doctor is supposedly the best liver cancer and abnormal mass specialist in the United States, Dr. Mark Roh. He did reassure us that he got all of it but on the 7th he is taking Steve down from his office to start his first doses of radiontherapy and chemotherapy. Should I request a PET scan now or after the first course of therapy? We are flying blind here because there is not that much information on these types of mass or cancer. I do know that the doctor told us on the phone that even though the mass went from the top of the right kidney into the groin and down to the knee the cancer was centered primarily in the mass part that was around the groin. That did not make me feel any better after I researched testicular and penial cancer. Thank god, in a small way, that he is not able to get to the computer right now and research this, I think his spirits would plummet. Please let me know of any questions I should be asking the doctor on this important visit. And thank you for all your help.
Lori