This afternoon a doctor from the Oncology office called for Rory. Apparently the person who talked with Rory late on Monday hadn't yet communicated with the other doctor that the conversation happened. After confirming that, I asked whether she would talk with me, and she agreed.
Apparently Dr. Garley works in the same group as Rory's regular Oncologist (who is still out of the office), and has more than 30 years of experience in the practice. She confirmed that the PET scan and other blood tests point to cancer, BUT probably not a "new" cancer (such as one of the various bone cancers). Instead, she thinks it is Rory's previous cancer that is finally expressing itself again in a new location. Sounds like that is actually very normal, expected, and why they do these follow-up checks. It also means that the meds she has been on since her first treatments aren't doing their job any more to suppress the cancer, so it's likely time to move on to the next one on the list. Her summary statement was something along the lines of, "This will be a change, but not an end-of-life type of change."
All of this is conjecture, albeit educated conjecture, and will be confirmed by the biopsy. Sure made me feel better, although we won't know for sure until after next week's follow-up appointment.
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