CT results

Great news

So happy you shared this great news!  Not sure how to respond to the potential surgery.  Questions that come to mind are if the Sutent had that effect, will it continue to shrink the tumor and possibly avoid a surgical procedure?  If they must do surgery, will they just remove the tumor or do they have to do a lobectomy? (remove a section of the lung)

I will continue praying for you.  Best wishes,

Donna~

Great news about the blood

Great news about the blood test results and the decrease in tumor size. Can't help with the surgery question but to me it would seem to make sense to get rid of it altogether. Agree with Bellweather on getting a second opinion, however. All the best!

Congrats

That is good news.  I did have a lung met removed for a biopsy I am not sure if it is the same thing but the surgery was pretty easy and not to hard on the body.

Mark

Stage 4 is not a sentence for?

It's an opportunity to live life with a different attitude  And you are on the right path...with the attitude you have.

D'xd at Stage 4 ten years ago, the same time as a friend of mine.  Mine had spead to liver and nodes with an extensive surgery to get it all, and recurred in single lymph nodes two times.  After the neph, hers went into her lungs.  She had a couple of nodes removed, and then an entire lobe, and about 6 years ago, IL2.  We are both OK and still out there getting into trouble with the world.

We've both been involved with a local Hospice Cancer Survivors' Support Group and Relay for Life and make an effort to work with those who have cancer.

Take care of yourself and enjoy your trip to our side of the country (Oregon).

Hugs,

donna_lee

Bellweather said:

I would have to give it a go

My lung mets are bilateral with the largest in the left lung at 1cm.  If the large one was the only one, I would likely opt to have it removed.  There are articles and personal accounts online regarding good results for single lung nods being removed.  There is also some literature on RFA, radio frequency abalation as well as freezing the nodule, not sure of the term for that.  Ask your doctor about all of them and get a second opinion from a RCC specialist at a research hospital, that would be my strategy.  Wishing you the best and look forward to hearing about your success!!

Bell

Freezing

I think they call it cryoblation or something like that. Cryoablation?

Todd

Airie said:

Thanks for all the responses!

Thanks for all the responses! So appreciate your input. I will ask Drs at UCLA if Cyroablation or RFA are an option. Either would be much less invasive than traditional lung surgery. 

Cyber Knife Radiation on Lung Mets

I heard a talk by a radiologist/oncologist at Cedars about using radiation on lung tumors. They had seen some benefits to this on other cancers/other tumors as if somehow it helped the immune system to kick start (treating a tumor in one place and they noticed a decrease in tumor sizes in other places in the body). He specifically mentioned a patient of his with RCC that had 2 lung mets that wanted to buy time before starting a drug and they were going to treat those tumors with radiation.

This radiation/oncologist worked with Dr. Figlin at Cedars Sinai. If you're near UCLA, you're near there. I think Dr. Figlin is the top specialist in Los Angeles for RCC. He used to head up the program at UCLA and left for Cedars (actually he spent some time at City of Hope in between). It might be worth a consultation. When I went for a consult they got me in very quickly.

Regards,

Todd