I am not a doctor, but I do work with cancer patients. I think that you are understandably freaking out. Anytime a patient hears tumor, I don't care if it is benign or not, they freak out. Unfortunately, I think that you are going to have to wait. If it is a desmoid tumor, there are treatments available and it is a benign tumor. It may be locally aggressive but will not spread to other parts of your body. This is a good thing in the realm of tumors, i.e., if you have to have one it is certainly not the worst kind to have. I have included a link below with more information. However, as I said, I think that you are going to have to wait until you see the next doctor for a definitive diagnosis. This is very frustrating, I know.

I do sympathize with you. I have gone through horrible knee pain from a meniscal tear. Swelling can be your body's reaction to the pain. Before my surgery, my leg, not just my knee, swelled up so much, especially when compared to my other leg, that the doctor's thought I had a blood clot. My leg swelled up from ankle to thigh. My recommendation would be to ice the affected area every few hours, for no more than 20 minutes at a time. This may help to alleviate some of your pain and reduce the swelling. Do not ice it for more than 20 min at a time, as your body will respond by sending more blood to the area to heat it up and it will have the adverse effect of increasing the swelling to the area.

http://www.dtrf.org/dtrf_aboutdesmoids.htm

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