We met with the gastroenterologist this afternoon and actually got a copy of the pathology report and discussed it with him in detail. He had taken six biopsies across the full expanse of the stomach, and even though all of the sites looked just fine and normal through his scope, the pathologist found some "atypical" cells showing up near blood vessels in all six of the biopsy tissue samples. The doctor said it is almost certain that these are lung cancer cells that have scattered; this is typical of lung cancer as it spreads, before various individual cells start growing in different locations to the point of being tumors detectable by scans. They're technically called "atypical" instead of "cancer" cells at this point mostly because they are so random and not clustered. The only way to deal with it is by using chemotherapy as a body-wide attack on them.

Friday will be an important day, when we get the results of tomorrow afternoon's diagnostic CT scan. We'll be hoping that the original tumor in the lung has continued to shrink, and no new tumors show up. It probably won't show much (if anything) yet about the effectiveness of the radiation on the bone tumors in Lisa's leg/hip/pelvis... that will be re-scanned in December.