Daughter With Cancer

Cancer. Never thought I would hear this word spoken in relationship to one of my children. My daughter Aubri found a large lump under her arm near the middle of the bicep. After antibotics for what the doctors thought was infection, anti-inflamatory medication for the swelling, an ultrasound, and several doctors visits they decided to take it out. After it was removed and sent away for pathology work the results came back inconclusive. They said is was an "Atypical Spindle Cell Neoplasm". That's doctor speak for an unusual growth made of spindle cells. After further stain testing they determined it was fast growing and nondiferentiate (what ever that means), but still could not determine where it came from, what is was made from, or whether is was benign or malignant. It has now been sent to the Mayo Clinic and to the Huntsman Cancer Institute for genetic testing to determine it's origin. We also visited a specialist at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City and they performed some tests and took an MRI of the arm.

I know the statistics both good and bad, but not knowing what this is and what we can do about it drives me nuts. So now we sit and wait for a couple of weeks.