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1 cm lung cancer tumor with COPD & emphysema: Anxious

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@franki24

Hi Lisa: so sweet of you to take the time to write such generous words.

It is seemingly impossible to get anyone to see me quickly. The surgeon is a week away and the pulmonologist isn't until early February. I am having a rough day. It seems in many ways hopeless to me. I can't get anyone to return a call. I take full responsibility for the choices I have made in my life. It just seems that the delays have been going on since early December. I asked to see a pulmonologist last year and was told there was nothing in my scan to see one.

My doctor was quite sanguine about my prospects for surgery but now seems to think it needs to be done quickly. I am so disappointed.

I guess we'll have to wait and see. Thank you again for your thoughtful gesture.

Frank

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Frank, @franki24 , The appointments never seem to come fast enough, do they? Waiting is quite difficult. I don't mean to contradict your primary doctor who knows your case well, and I'm not a doctor. I'll speak in general terms, not specific to your case, if we are not experiencing symptoms, waiting a few weeks usually isn't going to have much impact. I tend to believe that unless I have pathology to confirm a nodule/mass is cancer, then I don't know for sure (again, just my take). A year ago, I had a new 1cm nodule show up on a CT scan. The PET showed 'uptake'. My oncologist was gearing up to change my targeted therapy treatment thanking that it was failing. After two biopsies we determined that the nodule wasn't cancer, it was inflammation reacting to a fungus. Our lungs are sensitive, they react to all sorts of things; cancer and otherwise.
Back to the waiting, we've all been in that situation, and it's not easy. Hoping that your appointments come soon. Hugs.