While they were confirming Pheen's infection, they were thorough and ran other tests. The ultrasound showed that his kidney was reenveloped by a mass. So they did another aspiration test. To get a sample of anything suspicious, they slide in a long very thin needle, and suck up a little bit to test. It's like a biopsy, but far less invasive.
They got the results they were expecting, once they saw the ultrasound. His cancer has grown back WHILE he was on chemo.
Of course, the break from chemo, that was supposed to give him two months of a normal life, is now impossible. The cancer specialist had to create a new regimen, something much stronger. He starts Thursday.
It's going to be horrible. It took months--and several more meds--to get his body adjusted to low dose chemo, to the point where he only felt miserable about half of the week. And the terror of infections will also be more grim...