My husbands story

My husband ended up in ER to ensure the pain that he was having was indeed gastritis.  It was in fact gastritis but when they did the CT scan they found a small tumor on his kidney.  We did not do a biopsy because they are only 80% accurate.  We elected to have a partial nephrectomy.  Surgeon made it sound simple cut it out and he would be cancer free.  It was a small tumor.  It was in the lower part of kidney although it was on the inside of the kidney.  Made it sound super easy and this would be the cure.  So a couple days after the surgery, surgeon calls (on a Sunday). That they did not find any cancer.  Yeah you would think.  Then come to find out no tumor  at all was removed.  Spoke to surgeon who said out of the 150-200 times he performed this surgery 3-4 times this had happened before.  Every time it happened the tumor was still in there.  Well we decided that it was time for a new Dr.  The new doctor was confused and suprised by previous one.  Said the doctor should have used an ultrasound to locate the tumor During the surgery.  So we waited 3months to get another CT scan done.  Everyone was expecting to see the rumor staring back at us.  Results no tumor.  Possibilities are it is hiding in the scar tissue or that it was devascularized during surgery and with the blood flow being cut off, the tumor died.  So we wait 6 months for another CT.  The thing that really sucks is his mom had something they found on her kidney, however she already knew she was dying and didn't want anymore tests.  So now we don't know if she had cancer and now we don't know if he had/has cancer.  moral of the story make sure you surgeon uses an ultrasound to locate tumor during surgery.