Hi Murray: I can only identify in part. I had surgery on my rt. lung in
9/97. After the surgery I was told they found cancer in a lymph node and if
they had known that they would not have operated. Well I didn't find out
until later that Sloan Kettering should have checked that prior to surgery,
but I didn't know that at the time. They also suspect it is in my left
lung. They stopped the surgery mid way. I guess one of my points is - a CT
Scan does not show everything and prior to lung surgery the lymphnodes that
can be reached should be checked.
I have been doing very good since that surgery, considering they gave me 6
mos to a year to live and I read something the other day that is puzzling my
mind. The information I read said that if an entire tumor is removed and
there are other small tumors in the body, that can cause the other tumors to
run rampant. In my case since the tumor is not running wild, maybe it is
good that they didn't take the Whole tumor, maybe that is one reason why
they didn't take the Whole tumor.
I doubt that this helped you much, but I will pray for you and your wife and
that Always helps. I am sorry for your predicament.
June A.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray Davis [SMTP:MurrayD@hacsc.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 1:12 PM
> To: 'mol-cancer@lists.meds.com'
> Subject: [MOL] Lung Cancer
>
> Recently my mother had surgery to remove cancer from her right lung. The
> day
> after the surgery she was sitting up and conversing with relatives. Two
> days
> later an infection in the middle lobe caused her to have respiratory
> arrest.
> Emergency surgery was done, the middle lobe was removed. The doctors
> explained that the middle lobe became gangrenous due to a lack of blood.
> The
> lung had torqued or was twisted. This was several months ago, my mother
> has
> been in ICU since. I have not been able to determine if the complications
> from the surgery is common or exactly what did go wrong. Has anybody had a
> similar experience? To complicate things more, the pre-op CTScan was
> negative, but while examining the middle lobe after the second surgery the
> pathologists found several small tumors. The doctors explained had they
> known the cancer had spread surgery would not have been an option.
>
> Murray Davis
> MurrayD@HACSC.org
> 408 993 2914
>
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