Confused !!

[wendygirl]

I have just been asked to make an appointment at the n-oncology department at the Queen Square hospital this has come out of the blue. How is this connected to my CA?

[HarryB Administrator]

Hi Wendygirl

I have absolutely no idea. Who asked you to do that?

Harriet

[wendygirl]

Harriet

I have no idea the letter arrived in the post yesterday. I am having genetic testing at the moment they are testing for rare types so not sure if they have found something & need further test or its a normal procedure or it could be a mistake. There is no doctors name on the letter.

I guess I will have to wait and see. Thank you for your response.

wendygirl x

[lindadoc]

Could it be to have blood taken, Oncology departments and hematology departments are usually in the same place, it is in my son's hospital.

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iindadoc is right sometimes hospital departments are the same people with a different hat on I recently had dr cazder move an appointment for ataxia and the new one was at his migraine clinic according to the letter

[silkwood]

Maybe they want to diagnose by elimination.Sometimes Ataxia can be linked with cancer but that is very rare.

I was asked about a Mamogram test. It is probably a red herring but the neuros will want to eliminate things.

[neta]

Mybe an error was made. Fact is, I have no idea why you were sent to an oncology department (I live in another country) but I was repeatedly told by neurologists that ataxia often masks or predates cancer. I was tested for cancer which I do not have. It is routine here when CA is diagnosed. There are also blood tests for this. Neta