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» tinuviel - Spinal cancer issue

You said "surgery should allow for a more definitive diagnosis." What does that mean? I don't think it's a biopsy they're going in for, so shouldn't this surgery be occurring after the diagnosis?

You're both probably right about their not knowing precisely what to call the cancer--or maybe if it is cancer at all. But I don't know for sure if it really is the case. I guess I also know from reading everything on these cancer pages that the problem doesn't end with the surgery. So maybe that's what you mean by diagnosis? I hadn't actually thought of that though... I think I had the feeling that after the surgery everything would be over, but it is not so, is it?

-- posted by tinuviel