stage 1 lung cancer, half lung removed, dr says got it all, how often do you need cat/pet scan?
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at least every 3-6 months for first 3years
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DO YOU SMOKE???EITHER WAY YOU NEED TO HAVE A CHEST X-RAY FIRST AND FORMOST THEN IF CANCER IS RULED OUT TRY FOR ATHSMA,ALLERGIES,CRONIC COUGH,ETC..DONT WAIT I CANT STRESS THIS ENOUGH I HAD A FRIEND WHO THOUGHT HE WAS "JUST SICK" SAME STORY AS YOU ...HE HAD CANCER AND ONCE THEY FOUND IT IT WAS TOO LATE..I HOPE THIS ISNT YOUR CASE.SEE YOUR DR.
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you can tell very easily with the tests kits they sell. ask druggist to suggest one. they can tell very fast. if it's positive go to an o.b. dr. sorry you are too young to have your problems. i'm59 yrs. old i had breast cancer in 2000 and lung cancer in 2004. i've been going to 5 specialists now. i have tests all over my body every 3 months. i'm glad to keep up with the possiblities of cancer recurring. today i found out i have leasions on my rt. kidney. more tests for me again. but as i said the kits can tell your results,even if just 3 days have passed. what does your doctor say about irregular cycles. i would see another doctor. has to be an answer for what your going thru. take care and God bless! don't worry about AM  sickness, they have a pill for that. it could start any time mine was2 weeks - 2 months. it just depends on your body your hormones,too. take care i'll keep you in my prayers.     betty boop
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Having the transplant is a positve thing. I am a respiratory therapist that took care of a cf patient for 2 years before and 2 years after a lung transplant. His quaility of life is 100 percent better. And he will not need another transplant. His story is very inspiring actually... I had to do 45min hand cpt on him four times a day for months so to pass the time we talked while I was doing that... He had a positive attitude right up til right about time that he got the call about his new lungs. He got so sick that he was hopeless... then he got his transplant and is doing great! NO respiratory problems to date with him!
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What kind of cancer did he have to start with?  There are people nowadays living with cancer.  My father's friend Tony is an example.  Tony was diagnosed with 6 months to live, terminal cancer.  He pushed for chemo anyhow and is still here 8 years later and the cancer spread to the colon and pancreas and started in the lung.  He has to be on maintenance chemo every 4 months to control it but he is living with cancer like people live with any illness.  Don't give up hope.  Depending where the cancer is, part of the liver if it's in the left lobe can be removed and he can still function with part of his liver.  He could also be eligible if push came to shove for a transplant from a relative.
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Gee, my sister has had it a couple times in her life, she currently has been off work since the week before Christmas. \n\nShe was on antibiotics, and was going weekly for chest xrays and pulmanery function testing.  She is still off work (until June), but has finally had clear results. \n\nI would say however, it depends on the lung damage.  Check with your doctor, each person may have different results. \n\nGood luck.
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A small one.\n\nDIE OF LUNG CANCER
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Many facilities offer "whole body" CT scanning.  They are not covered by health insurance, and they do not require a doctor's order (actually, the radiologist at the facility which performs these is considered the ordering physician, because ALL imaging procedures require a doctor's order, except yearly screening mammograms.  This is federal law).  You can do a Yahoo or Google search with "whole body CT scanning" and your town/county/area to find a facility near you.  You can read about these scans (including the controversy) at the link below:\n\nhttp://www.fda.gov/cdrh/ct/screening.html\n\nA word of warning about these whole body scans.  If they show a possible problem which needs more follow up, your insurance may not cover that follow up either.\n\nIf you are adamant that you want a CT scan, consider another physician.  But remember, if we did a CT scan on everybody who had an ache or pain, health care costs would be outrageous.  Many times, your symptoms do not warrent a CT scan.  CT scans are not good for every process...they are not a find all.  You should ask your physician why he/she does not believe you need a CT.  There may be a very good reason.  \n\nBy the way, I cannot remember ever doing a CT scan because someone could feel lumps under their ribs.
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I have breast cancer,& had one breast removed.I had asked my doctor what will happen,& he told me it is put in a sterile bag,tested & brought to a incenarature
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The last stage of lung cancer is stage III. It is when the cancer has spread to other organs and lymph tissue and cannot be removed without surgery. It also means that it might be anywhere in the body and not just in the places it is discovered - so you can have surgery and then find that it is other places as well. \n\nI am very sorry if you are researching because someone you know has cancer or you think you might. \n\nQuitting smoking is hard - it is worth it.
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I have to say that you should go to another doctor.  I was going through the same thing.  I had a lump in my breast.  I had to go to 2 other doctors before the last doctor told me to have it removed.  I just had surgery june 2 to have it removed.  The other doctors told me it was just fatty tissue.  Once it was removed the doctor noticed it was bigger than it appeared.  They took out 80.4 grams of my breast.  They said I had a tumor and it was getting bigger.  If I would have let it stayed in there, they would have eventually have the entire breast removed because the type of tumor I had would just grow and grow.  So take care of yourself.  Doctors will tell you not to worry but if you demand them to do something about your health then you wont have to worry so much.  The type of test they do before going to surgery is mammagram, ultrasound, ct, and mri.  Some doctors do other test.  Some might want to do a biopsy.
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See what the dr says first if he reccomends surgery then i would also get a 2nd opinion. I did and found out i had cancer I am fine today and fully recovered . Have never had it a 2nd time thank god . Hopefully never will. God bless you and your husband. Good luck to you as well.
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I have PET scans regularly since I was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma.  The bill before insurance covered it was about $4,100 or so. Usually bills to the insurance are higher than bills to uninsured patients.  CT scans will run a couple hundred dollars and up depending on how much of your body you have scanned.  This is in California, and I know things are kind of pricey here compared to other states.  If your doctor suspects cancer, if you have cancer, or if you are in remission from cancer, these scans are very important, they can save your life!
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Throat cancer-- living with it. It depends on how far along it is when you get diagonised.  How quickly you get treatment. A friend of the families was diagonsed just after the new year 2005 and died in October of 2005, he was 56 yrs old and hadn't smoked in 20 years. they did tests and surgeries to removed the cancer and even radiation.  But  it was caught soon enough. So i guess it just depends on your specfic circumstances. I am sure a doctor could tell you more.
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its better you rule out any spinal injury, ideally you may need either a CAT scan of the chest/thorax and spine, probably the thoraric vertebrae..never ruling out further requirement of a MRI scan as well, get in touch with a traumatologist/spinal surgeon asap. good luck and wishes for a speedy recovery!
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I am reciting some of my experiences here – they are not meant to be boastful, rather I would like to inspire as many people who are suffering from cancer as possible – I would like to tell them – you can live normally! My best wishes to all, their families and friends! This is a long message so please do bear wtih me!\n\nThe stage grouping for my tumor was IVA (T3N0M0)  \n\nI ran a manufacturing plant in Mumbai (Bombay) and then moved to another city. I am a father of three beautiful kids- a son (age 20) who’s doing Engineering - Computer Science, a daughter (age17) who’s doing a pre-university science course and a school going younger son (age 10), and am very much in love with my wife of 25 years. We'll be celeberating our Wedding Siver Jubilee soon!\n\nOn August 30, 2002, I was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma - lower end common bile duct - by an MRI scan, I was 43 years old then (I married young), a malignant tumor was present at the joint between the head of my pancreas and the bile duct. This was further complicated by a scratch in my pancreas caused during ERCP on September 2, 2002. Though I have a high threshold of pain, the ERCP injury was almost intolerable and I had to be kept under sedation until surgery which took place on September 7, 2002. –.   Whipple’s procedure. \n\n\nMy gall bladder, omentum, part of my stomach, part of my pancreas (about 1/3rd),duodenum and the bile duct were removed. The margins were all clear. Right from September 1, 2002, when I had my last meal for quite some time, I was not fed anything at all, not even water. I was fed intravenously (I digress). \n\nReconstruction was carried out. I was in the operation theater and under anesthesia for almost 11 and ½ hours. Everything was fine until September 15, 2002, when excessive fluids started leaking out of the two drain holes made on both side of my abdomen. On that day in the morning I was fed with a low fiber diet with a tube connected directly to my stomach. I was very sick. My bowels gave away suddenly, and I lost control over my bladder. I started shivering violently and then suddenly felt very hot, I started sweating profusely and breathing was difficult even with an oxygen mask which had not been removed after surgery. Though in distress, my mind was very clear and lucid. I could see the expressions on the hospital staff and the doctors’ faces and understood that any second could be my last. That did not worry me or scare me, what worried me was my family’s fate after me, though after all the pain death was not an option that I wanted to reject outright.   \n\nI realized how serious I was, when experts advised that I be shifted to another hospital with better facilities a few miles away, and the doctors attending upon me, including the surgeon who’d operated on me and the anesthetist personally lifted me up and put me on a gurney to wheel me to the ambulance, rather than wait for the ward boys to come in. I remember the doctors periodically checking upon me by asking how I felt during the ambulance ride. I knew they wanted to know the level of my consciousness. I remember feeling the ambulance speeding and constant sound of the siren - not klaxon.\n\nI was quickly taken for an MRI scan and later my gurney with me on it was kept outside the hospital room, in a very safe and sterile place until the fate of my scan and probably, the doctors wanted to see if I would survive before admitting me into the hospital, Probably, if I know the law correctly, if I’d died within 24 hours of admission to a hospital a Post Mortem procedure would be mandatory.  I understood all this while I was waiting to be admitted to the better hospital, as I said, my mind was clear and lucid all throughout, I was very much aware of my surroundings, the people, the sounds and noises.\n\nAt that time I remember feeling quite pleasant, not hot at all and there seemed to be cool breeze wafting around me cooling me up. \n\nI was finally taken
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Oh dear… an 8mm mass on his lungs in never good news.\n\nI feel sorry for your both, especially for your fiancée…this is definitely not caching “it” early, for it is a secondary tumor, and a big one.\n\nOnce you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, you must keep present you’ve become a cancer survivor for as long as you live and thus never, never, ever think or believe you are over the fence, so to speak; cancer is treacherous and, as a survivor, one must NEVER let one’s guard down.\n\nAs for the prognosis, see what the doctors have to say, and make the BEST out of it.