Lipoma or Sarcoma ?

[needhelp777]

I'm a 41 year old male and 3-4 weeks ago I started feeling some slight discomfort on my right side (right where my lats used to be when I use to lift weights a long time ago). I went to my GP and the felt it with her hands. She said its soft, the size of a pear, doesn't have well defined boarders and is either some form of fatty deposit or a lipoma. She wants me to get an ultra sound as a precautionary measure given that it doesn't have well defined borders. Then she goes on to say that she isn't at all worried.

I know only 1 out of every 32,000 males my age will be diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma a year (1 out of 100,000+ if you factor in that most soft tissue sarcomas are on the legs, arms, abdomen), but I'm really concerned about what I've read on the internet about unencapsolated lipomas. Why isn't my Doctor concerned ? Should I be ?

[ctb]

Sarcomas are very, very rare forms of cancer that are also very difficult to treat. I was diagnosed with one of the rarest forms: Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor (DSRCT) in June o6--with only about 500 cases ever reported worldwide. If there is a possibility of your lump being a cancer, or more particularly, a sarcoma, you MUST see a sarcoma specialist. MD Anderson in Texas, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Dana Farber in the northeast, are excellent centers with very knowledgeable sarcoma specialists. DO NOT let a doctor who is not knowledgable and experienced in treating sarcomas go it alone!

Good luck. I hope your lump turns out to be nothing!

Chris, DSRCT/NED