Tests inconclusive

My biopsy results are back, and the test is inconclusive, which in a way is good news. Usually the results come back with a very definite answer, but they can't really be sure if my tissues are cancerous, although the vet still feels that it's cancer. However, she wants to run more tests to make sure and not rush into chemotherapy.

The test results says:
From the sections examined the section is moderately cellular with multifocal areas of necrosis; cytologically the lesion is significantly heterogeneous with a background population of small cleaved lymphocytes and larger vesicular lymphocytes with an apithelioid appearance and 0-2 mitoses per hpf. Differentials for this sort of cytological heterogenity include infectious granulomatous inflammation and lymohomas specifically T-cell-rich B cell lymphoma and periphertal T cell lymphoma. Additional clinical diagnostics and surveilance is warranted."

What a mouthful of medical jargon!

Anyway, what the vet roughly explained is that there are some large and normal cells in the tissue, and enlarged lymph nodes can be caused by some other factors including cancer. However, there are also some split cells in the tissue, which is a characteristic of cancer. So they cannot determine if it's cancer or not.

She will have to call the pathologist tomorrow to ask if the pathologist can do further tests if the cause is infection, and if it's tick fever. So I got some blood taken for further blood tests. However, if my previous tissue sample is not enough, I may have to be anaesthetized again for them to take more tissue samples for the pathologist. I hope it's enough, I don't want to go under the knife again!

My blood


The vet says I'm a very good boy because I didn't struggle while she was taking blood. She did a test for the common tick fever, the results were negative, but there's another form of tick fever which she does not have the equipment to test for and she'll have to send my blood to the lab for the test.

Tick fever negative


The vet also said that IF it is cancer, at least it's not those fast spreading type, so we have time to make proper diagnoses instead of having to rush into chemotherapy. In the meantime, I'll continue with Reiki and the enzymes and cottage cheese mix (licks).

Keep those pawsitive vibes coming! I think it's helping!