please help me!

I am a 41 years old female. I have been hepatitis B carrier for more than 15 years. My liver test results are all normally (AST and ALT) except that my AFP is slightly higher (11-12). I have been follow-up with abdominal ultra-sounds every 6 months and the results are all normal. I did CT-scan at 2004 and everyting looks normal.

But sometimes I feel the pain around liver area so my doctor suggested me to do another the CT-SCAN last week. On the report, there was a 4mm "object" found inside the liver. He thought it was too small to identify whether it is benign or not. He suggested me to do another one in 3 months to check if it grow or not. Nothing else he can do now.

I am so worried about this might be cancer. Please tell me if this is likely to be cancer or not? what other things I can do rather than waiting for three months???

Thanks a lot,

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• can someone help me to translate this? -new_L- ♀ (693 bytes) () 07/17/2009 postreply 18:00:21

• 这个 4 mm 的东西很有可能是血管的分流 （a small vascular shunt ）或者 -HenryLi- ♂ (58 bytes) () 07/17/2009 postreply 20:21:31

• 回复：这个 4 mm 的东西很有可能是血管的分流 （a small vascular shunt ）或者 -new_L- ♀ (369 bytes) () 07/17/2009 postreply 21:53:04

• No, hemangioma is a benign vascular neoplasm, they can appear -HenryLi- ♂ (134 bytes) () 07/18/2009 postreply 09:56:34

• Why do you need to translate it since you know English very well -Gatewayman- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/17/2009 postreply 20:03:07

• 回复：Why do you need to translate it since you know English very w -new_L- ♀ (96 bytes) () 07/17/2009 postreply 21:46:56

• you may look up these words in the English-English dictionary. -Gatewayman- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/17/2009 postreply 23:34:13

• 照报告看基本上认为是良性的东西。 -laota- ♀ (138 bytes) () 07/18/2009 postreply 06:14:07

• 回复：你可以复查AFP， 如果没有变化就大可以放心了。 -laoyueyue- ♀ (44 bytes) () 07/18/2009 postreply 10:44:36