Having lived through this before, I can easily predict Pavarotti's cancer is getting the upper hand since he has more cancer tests this week.
Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti is to stay in hospital for tests related to his pancreatic cancer. The tenor has been in hospital in Modena, Italy, since being admitted with a fever almost two weeks ago.
Despite reports suggesting he had been given the all-clear to leave last week, doctors have now said he will be kept in for at least a few more days.
As far as I remember my father's metastatic liver cancer prognosis, "a few days" was needed in order to do further tests, scans and a liver biopsy.
Pavarotti, 71, has not been seen in public since he had pancreatic cancer surgery to remove a tumour from his pancreas in July 2006.
A statement from the hospital said several "basic pathological tests" would be carried out in the days to come. The singer is being treated on the cancer ward.
The Modena University Policlinico hospital echoed that, describing his condition as "satisfactory". This is what some doctors say when the patient is terminal but still has a good quality of life.
On 14 August, his manager Terri Robson said the singer would be leaving hospital "imminently" - but his wife Nicoletta Mantovani later said he preferred to stay because he felt more comfortable there.
Pavarotti, widely regarded as one of the world's greatest opera singers, has been dogged by ill health in recent years. Most likely these were the undetected symptoms pointing to the Pavarotti cancer.