Connect
← Return to Possible 2 different cancers in lungs?
Discussion
Possible 2 different cancers in lungs?
Lung Cancer | Last Active: 1 day ago | Replies (20)Comment receiving replies
@guyjeff123, Right now, it's all speculation. Which can be so hard to deal with. Our minds run wild.
Based on the responses here, yes, people can develop more than one type of lung cancer. But that doesn't mean that yours will be two types. I have lung cancer in one lung, and a fungal nodule in the other. You've been through a lot recently. Knowing what these nodules are will help to settle your mind. Knowing lets us get a plan in place, and I'm always better with a plan. 🙂
The levels that the PET light up (referred to as uptake) can be telling in some circumstances too.
Has the biopsy been scheduled?
Replies to "@guyjeff123, Right now, it's all speculation. Which can be so hard to deal with. Our minds..."
Connect
Hi Lisa. Yes I am having a Robotic assisted biopsy through my airway on 5/16. The doctor told me it's risky since he has to go into the right lobe to try and get a piece of that tumor and then he has to withdraw from the right lobe and go into the left lobe to do the same thing. I think I'm more concerned with him nicking a blood vessel and causing a large bleed, than I am about the lung to collapse. He also said there's a risk of a pulmonary embolism but that's rare. These biopsies commonly cause arrhythmias in the heart and that also scares me because I have A-Fib and Congestive Heart Failure. I just pray I wake up. I'm actually worried about the entire process and outcome. Any cancer will create a treatment dilemma for me since I only have 1 kidney and my eGFR is only 58.