The Wait Is Over!
And the prognosis is good.

What happened was, my stepfather-in-law (henceforth called SFIL) has been feeling tired for a while. He weighs himself every day and has maintained the same weight for decades. He lost 6 pounds in 3 days. So he went to the doctor. A CT scan showed a mass in his abdomen, about 11 cm long, 11 cm deep and 2 1/2 cm high. That's a good sized tumor. They removed it today along with his spleen, an adrenal gland and part of his pancreas. It does not appear to have metastisized. His prognosis is very, very good.

I'm so relieved!