
Lung Cancer Support Group
Lung cancer is a cancer of the lungs characterized by the presence of malignant tumours. Most commonly it is bronchogenic carcinoma (about 90%). Lung cancer is one of the most lethal of cancers worldwide, causing up to 3 million deaths annually. Although lung cancer was previously an illness that affected predominately men, the lung cancer rate for women has been...

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In December I had a car scan done and they found an 8mm nogule on my left lung. Now, I have to wait until March ro have another cat scan done to see if it has changed any. The ironic thing is that they were not even looking for this. It just happened to show up. It did not show up on the xray. The doctor says as long as it is less then 1cm. Does anyone know anything about such nogules? It would be greatly appreciated.I am quite nervous about this. Thanks
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#2 Have no SURGERIES until diagnosis.
#3 Have no Surgeries once cancer, (IF) treatment is started. The weakened body cannot cope with two major events and never seems to rally again.
#4 Make sure they get a needle biopsy if possible or do a brocoscope to get the biopsy tissue.
#5 Whan seeing an Oncologist be your own advocate, read, study, talk to survivors. My husband is a 1+3 survivor, one year past his 3 months. YOU can live with cancer. He still works full time.
#6 Make sure your oncologist is in the fight. There are meds to help one through all the symptoms of cancer. Steroids to help you through chemo, 4 nausea drugs or MORE to help with the nausea, Bone growth drugs and on and on. READ
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Empower yourself and then fight. My spouse is LIVING with cancer.
#8 You can use up a lot of energy being frightened, use it for a better purpose.
We learned the hard way. I hope for Good luck and best wishes for you and yours. God bless you and keep you. D
Thank you again for the support.
When you get time, will you write and let us know what you've been up to treatment wise and how you're feeling?
#1, Get an new Dr.
Cancer spread is the difference between stage 1 and stage 4.
A 2 month delay is unlikely to change a stage 1 to a stage 4 tumor. Some growths do little; monitoring makes sense and is one valid perspective. My mother-in-law had a small tumor, we did nothing because she has other serious conditions, and the tumor did nothing over the remainder of her life.
#2 Have no SURGERIES until diagnosis. No one is suggesting surgery, the first step if some growth is seen would be a biopsy.
#3 Have no Surgeries once cancer, (IF) treatment is started. The weakened body cannot cope with two major events and never seems to rally again.
#4 Make sure they get a needle biopsy if possible or do a brocoscope to get the biopsy tissue. One valid approach is Rodriq's suggestion to have a biopsy, while others would not suggest that approach for a solitary pulmonary nodule until they saw what they growth did. What was her smoking history.
#5 Whan seeing an Oncologist be your own advocate, read, study, talk to survivors. My husband is a 1+3 survivor, one year past his 3 months. YOU can live with cancer. He still works full time. Good, agreed.
#6 Make sure your oncologist is in the fight. There are meds to help one through all the symptoms of cancer. Steroids to help you through chemo, 4 nausea drugs or MORE to help with the nausea, Bone growth drugs and on and on.
I would add that substitution of carboplatin for cisplatin can reduce the incidence of nausea and you are correct that newer drugs can help prevent nausea.
#7 Subscribe to CURE, a FREE magazine of cancer updates, research and education.
Empower yourself and then fight. My spouse is LIVING with cancer. Agreed this is a good journal.
#8 You can use up a lot of energy being frightened, use it for a better purpose.
We learned the hard way. I hope for Good luck and best wishes for you and yours. God bless you and keep you. D Agreed
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Should your next CT show increased size then it would be time to evaluate what to do next and what type of specialist to see? From this point there are many options, my team and my husbands was the same and consisted of a Pulmonologist, Oncologist and Thoracic Surgeon. Our PCP is kept in the loop because even cancer patients have other problems not related to their cancer.
My husbands was found at 1-1/2 cm and considered to small for any biopsy. A PET scan was done which indicated by the uptake that it was probably cancer. He opted for VATS (Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery) biopsy in the hospital. Had it not been cancer they would have sewed him up and sent him home the next day. But it was cancer and they continued with the surgery removing a section of his upper left lobe. He was stage 1A
My lung cancer was found by accident and misdiagnosed pneumonia. I got a second opinion it was a 7-1/2 x 6-1/2 cm tumor. I had no options but to get the thing out, at that size I was very lucky surgery was the recommended option, it's the gold standard for lung cancer. That was three years ago then I was stage 1B.