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Lung Cancer

Archives for August 2014

Small Cell Metastasis Lung Cancer
My mother was diagnosed with a large tumor in her lung and we quickly found out it had spread to a place in her spine and adrenal gland. She has been through a couple months of chemotherapy and now has underwent a couple weeks of heavy radiation. We have come to a point now where the doctor says take a month off and come…
Mom giving up!
Well, it's been a very long road for my mom and our family. She was dignosed 6 years ago with stage 4 NSCLC. Did the 30 days chest/ brain radiation and the first round of chemo. However, her body rejected the chemo and ended up with blood transfusions. We ended up taking her to a new oncologist and that's where the brain…
thoracentesis
Does anyone know if it's ok to take a tylenol or ibuprofen BEFORE getting a thoracentesis done?
robotics lobectomy
Just wanting to know if anyone has had robotics lobectomy for nsclc, and what there experience was. I'm not sure if there going to do it yet , but I have an appointment again with the thoracic surgeon and he said if he did it , it would be robotically I have read what it entails, but I havent seen to much on people who…
Recommendation needed for a Thoracic surgeon with Kaiser Permanente group in San Francisco Bay Area
Multiple lung nodules were discovered in my lungs by CT in 2005. Periodic monitoring by CT since showed none of them disappeared nor grew in size until the last CT scan I had last month. It turned out two of them have grown to 1cm and 1.3cm. Biopsy perfomed on the larger leision showed it is what the pathologist called…
Prophylactic cranial radiation
My husband received prophylactic cranial radiation in July of 2012. All seemed fine, then about 4 months after everything went south. He had a stroke in 2005 but was doing really great, speech was good,memory fine and etc. Since this radiation he is always confused, his legs are like jello,he can not walk without help, in…
PET scan
My mom who is 86 yrs, will be getting her first PET scan next Monday. She has already had 3 MRI's, with no reaction, but I"m wondering if anyone has had any reactions to a PET scan, during or after the scan. The Doctor's recommend drinking alot of fluids after the scan, to flush out the radiation, but my mom has never been…
Multiple nodules and Adenocarcinoma in Situ
Hello everyone, I am 56-year old former smoker (quit 7 years ago) and was just diagnosed with Adenocarcinoma In Situ based on needle biopsy done on a 1.3cm nodule in my right middle robe. Multiple pulmonary nodules in my lung were first discovered by CT (taken because I was feeling shortness of breath) in 2005 and they…

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