Dear Allison,
Docent@aol.com
Pls excuse me, I am writing this reply while I am waiting for my wife to
be treated at an immune therapy hospital. I will not be able to post
this message to you until Sun and it is Thurs previous as I have no
means to access a telephone access for my modem. So, pls do excuse me.
In the meantime, there will be many more here that will provide you with
some very good suggestions to begin your caregiving project of a
wellness plan for your Mother.
Pls be encouraged to know that when all other tests are clean then the
tumor is what is known as "insitu" which means in one area and the great
or vast majority of all cases can be cured by either or both means of
the treatment you are indicating the doctors are suggesting.
NOw, if it is a metastastasis "spread" to other area(s), pls
additionally be assured that there are treatments and therapies that are
very successful in this disease as well. There are many, many miracle
stories.
I would urge you to start collecting all medical records, say, the
radiology reports, medical reports, all scans and biopsy slides as they
will be necessary for you to take to a 2nd opinion which I and many
others would urge to you seek for your Mom. NOw, to get a good 2nd
opinion is to begin by calling the National Cancer Institute at
1-800-4cancer and they will provide you with at least 3 names of
comprehensive facilities in your area to arrange appointments for 2nd
and possibly 3rd opinions. The purpose of these opinions is to find
oncologists that not only concur with you Mothers primary doctor, but to
provide you with sources and information that will enlighten you about
the disease and other followup procedures that say your Moms oncologist
may or may not cover.
Pls do come back as we will provide you with so much more info. Just
take one step, one day at a time.
God Bless
marty auslander
Docent@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hi-
>
> My mother went to the doctor a couple of months ago because she was having
> pain in her hip. A couple of weeks later she developed a cold. the doctor did
> a chest x-ray and thought she had pnuemonia. He gave her two weeks' worth of
> antibiotics. She came back and the symptoms had cleared, but a chest x-ray
> showed that the spot had not cleared. An x-ray of the hip led the doctor to
> conclude that she had broken her hip. He admitted her to the hospital that
> day and called in a pulmonary doctor and bone doctor. They ordered a bone scan
> which showed a little bit of uptake that the bone doctor said was arthritis.
> The lung doctor said he was pretty sure the shadow was cancer and scheduled a
> bronchoscopy with negative results. The pulmonary doc then ordered a needle
> biopsy of the lung; the pathology results indicates a 3 x 5 cm adenocarcinoma.
> The brain and the lymph nodes looked clean, but the oncologist ordered antoher
> set of chest x-rays and an MRI of her hip and spine. If the MRI comes back
> clean, then the oncologist and the pulmonary doc want to do pre-op
> chemotherapy and then surgery. My mother is 70 years old.
>
> Any comments and/or suggestions as to what to expect, questions to ask, etc.
> would be very much appreciated. My dad died three years ago -- nine months
> after being diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma. Mother and I are not
> sure how to deal with this new set of challenges.
>
> Thanks-
> allison
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