Another MRI -- not good news

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Hi everyone,

Sorry I have not been around much -- Safari crashed, summer arrived and life

kind of

intervenes and gets busy...

I started back on Urso in June and had LFTs checked in July -- numbers looked

much

better -- bili is back in a normal range! My hep wanted me to have another MRCP

to see if

the dominant stricture had opened up at all, so I had it on Sunday.

I got a call yesterday to come in and meet with one of my hep's associates -- my

doc is on

vacation at the moment.

The MRI shows a lesion in my liver. Based on location (it is toward the back,

near my

ribcage), they do not think it is bile duct cancer, which I guess is the silver

lining in all of

this. It is about 3-4 cm, and they think it is a primary cancer known as HCC

(can't recall

what that stands for). I had bloodwork done yesterday -- including INR -- and

will have a

CAT-guided liver biopsy within the week.

I didn't get a warm and fuzzy feeling that this is likely benign and they are

being über-

cautious. There are two other small spots that are too small to biopsy, that

could be new

lesions.

Needless to say, as a mom of two children under the age of five, I'm kind of

quietly

freaking out here. Anyone who has words of advice -- I'm all ears.

Regards,

Colleen

UC 8/1984

PSC 8/2000

possible HCC? 8/2008