Thank you, Colleen. Yes, I’ve had several conversations with my oncologist. She’s 99.9% certain it is either melanoma metastasis or lung cancer. She tells me the only way of knowing what to treat is through knowing what the cancer is. I completely understand that. Are you aware of other options? I’d be most grateful if you let me know. I’m extremely scared of the biopsy given the risks, especially with extreme COPD. I have severe anxiety to begin with and no medication helps unfortunately. Brilliant me has turned to smoking as it’s the only thing that calms me a bit…worst thing I could do! This is all at a very well known cancer hospital affiliated with Harvard where I’ve always felt very secure with my doctors but right now I don’t know. Top it off with in reading my last CT scan, it mentions “likely from a myocardial infarction “ in it,
which was never mentioned to me. I asked my oncologist and she replied “well you had a heart attack.” No, not to my knowledge and why was this never mentioned even though it’s not my lungs where the nodules are? It all makes me very Leary yet what choice
do I have?
Any thoughts you have are most welcome and thank you.