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Not eligible for Immunotherapy. Now what?
Lung Cancer | Last Active: May 22 5:00pm | Replies (58)Comment receiving replies
My oncologist brought my case up to the tumor board and they concur with him. I also got a second opinion from another oncologist who's at Stanford, who also said he would treat me in the same manner as my oncologist. I'll ask my radiologist about scheduling another PFT... I really hate doing them, I have to consistently blow into a tube over and over again for 45 minutes until I start getting dizzy. Re: the attachment re: ablation, I'm not seeing an attachment. Do you possibly have a link to the paper? Thanks very much for all your info, by the way.
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I swore I attached the article! Anyway here is a link to another article that talks about ablation (always for people with interstitial disease -like me now). https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.23.30300#:~:text=Percutaneous%20ablation%20appears%20to%20be%20safe%20and%20effective%20for%20stage,)%20%5B1%2C%202%5D.
Regarding the pulmonary function test, I know they are boring - I have done five in the last year. But do you have a pulmonologist? My Radiation Oncologist righty says she is not a Pulmonologist. PFTs are not that easy to interpret
even if the report provides summary. They can indicate the difference between COPD and some other type of pulmonary disease. But if you go to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Internet page they have a document which explains PFTs.