Please post again after your doctor appointment. The biopsy findings are unusual, in that usually there is no ambiguity about cancer or not. p16 is a pretty should marker, but not absolute. Malignant cells once viewed under microscopic exam have distinct changes, the vast majority of the time those changes are definitive evidence of cancer or not.

Squamous papillomas are mostly benign, that’s not a term that describes cancer . So waiting for your next post after your doc visit before commenting further. Hopefully this is another tissue abnormality and not the big c.

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