My mother in law may have cancer.

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Last week my mother in law finally convinced her doctor that something is wrong aside from her being diabetic. She has had sotmach pain since January and everytime she sees her doctor he tells her it is her diabetes. She also has been constipated for over a month. Finaly he schedualed her a colonoscopy for last week. Because of her constipation they were unalble to do the procedure. Instead they did a CAT scan and discovered a 25cm mass. She was imeadiatly sent to an obgyn who did a biopsy of the mass. They then sent her to a doctor to give her a pre-op clearance. Yesterday at her pre-op clearance appointment the doctor was amazed that they had not admitted her to the hospital where they could do all of the needed tests and get the results back in less than 2 days. Instead he had to run the tests and it is going to take up to 10 days to get the results. Meanwhile, the doctors think it might be cancer; but instead of admitting her and taking it out they are going to put it off until all the test results are in. By the way, my mother in law is on medicaide. I cannot help but think that if she had a good insurance they would have admitted her last week when they found the mass, and we would no longer be wondering if it is cancer or not. She has another appointment on Monday morning. Has anything like this ever happened to you or someone you know? Does anyone have any advice about getting her the treatment she needs in a more speedy manner? All thoughts and comments welcome. Thank you.