Hi all
I saw my onc today, which is exactly 8 years since my original diagnosis of non small cell lung cancer. The new growth is around the tumour that has been stable for about 3 years. Fortunately it is only there and hasn’t gone to any lymph nodes. The next step is to do a ct guided biopsy to confirm it is the same cancer as before. If it is I will start on docetoxel.
Silly me didn’t ask how many rounds I will get. Is there a standard protocol for this treatment? X
Hi everyone
Well I got a call from my lung nurse yesterday expecting to get the date for my biopsy. It was to say the biopsy doctor wasn’t happy that the growth is cancer, he thinks it may be an infection. Not sure what to make of that at all. Surely at the MDT the consensus would have been cancer, so how does one doctor disagreeing change what happens next. I’m slightly confused by this.
However I’m not unhappy as I’m to have a pet ct scan in the next 5-7 days. Obviously I’m praying it is just an infection.x
Morning mummyb I had the same thing 18 months ago. I was in hospital with pneumonia & pleurisy & it made the scans very hard to interpret.
The whole of 1 lung was a whiteout from consolidation. They gave me the benefit of the doubt but 6 months later I had another hospital admission for pneumonia. Again the scans were hard to interpret & there was disagreement at the MDT meeting, but they decided it was disease progression & mets. The scan cant differentiate between infection & something else and the longer we’re around with advanced cancer the more complex our care gets. Good luck with your PET scan, have everything crossed for you xx
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