Is this possible?
 

A friend of mine is diagnosed with cancer. She found a tumor in her breast - in the left side of the breast, and definately in the breast.
Sha was operated couple of weeks ago, and now the doctors tell her that this is not breast cancer - and the tumor is not the primary tumor - which they cannot find!!!
She has taken all sorts of examinations, MR CT and Pet. Nothing found elsewere. So where is the primary tumor?

How is this possible??

And - how do they know?

Sorry to hear about your friend. I have hear of this a couple of times before, where they never were able to find the primary tumor. That is all I know about it but someone else will answer you soon.

Is this possible?
 

In this world anything is possible. The doctors should examine the tumor throughly even if they have to send it to another lab to do it. I am sure they can figure out what kind it is if they do that.

Anything is possible and your friend needs to get a second opinion.

Joan

Sounds like a PET/CT scan is in order. Even with that, if the primary is really small it may not be visible
A patient at my work had a melanoma in her breast and another had lymphoma in the breast so I guess anything is possible.

Henny

I have heard of this happening to two other people - one had back trouble for two years and they finally found a "breast cancer" met but no other sign...she gets herceptin treatment where I get treated and has for the last 4 years.

I cannot remember where the cancer was found on the guy I met or what kind, I only remember it was very odd...sorry I do not remember more, but it does happen.