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Chemo for pT1a? Also two independent (primary) cancers
Lung Cancer | Last Active: Aug 26 11:36am | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
As Matthew indicated we are not medical doctors. I can share with you some of the things I have learned as a 13+ year advocate and what I learned about my own cancer diagnoses (3 of them).
The first set of results are indicators that it is probably an adenocarcinoma of lung origin. The proteins a cell creates are organ specific. Some of those rule out squamous cell. (The same genes test results showed up on my latest biopsy result).
It's possible that the group of negative results would have been tests to verify that this is not from your other primary.
Please let us know what you learn from your oncologist.
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I would add that, from my experience with lung cancer and my son’s lymphoma, a 2 nd opinion never does any harm and may be hugely useful.
After a suspicious nodule was seen on a CT scan in my left lung, the first oncologist I saw recommended waiting 3 months and then doing a 2nd scan to see if it had grown. It had barely grown, so she recommended doing another scan in 4 months. I consulted another lung cancer expert (a surgeon) at a different hospital. He said, “I’m 85% sure it’s cancer” and did a lobectomy shortly afterwards. The biopsy proved him right. (I couldn’t have a biopsy prior to surgery because the nodule was inaccessible). Waiting might not have changed anything, but I was happy to move quickly when it was only Stage 1A with no lymph gland involvement.