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Lung Cancer | Last Active: Jan 22 8:18am | Replies (1013)

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@reibur1951- Good morning. It's incredible the new terms and treatments that have shown up for lung cancer just in the past few years. You are a medical dictionary now! Did you ask why they did the biopsy on the nodule that was showing success?

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Yes when I discovered i immediately e-mailed Maggie the oncologist/clinical study nurse she consulted regular oncologist and he felt this would still provide good information. and she said I told them that as well, but I think they thought the axillary node would be safer to biopsy.

We just assumed since it was the supraclavicular neck lymph node that was not responding that would be the one again biopsied - its been the one biopsied the last 2 times one done in April 2018 after the 12 weeks of chemo and the other done within the last 6 months - they done the LT Axilla Lymph node in Oct/Nov 2017 when they found the cancer involved the lymph nodes of the chest and when examining after the PET found it and the supraclavicular neck lymph node swollen (which is now more visible than back then) they done the LT Axilla Lymph node first and said if it came back positive they would not move up to the supraclavicular neck lymph node that day -

To me I think it would of been the supraclavicular neck lymph node since from what was discussed about the Genomic testing about mapping out the tumor characteristic and why it was not responding and if there is any treatment/chemo that is available but what do I know I am only a common lay person... there is follow up after the test results are in

Yes there is a lot of medical terminology... but not new to it mother was a nurse, I took the EMT course for my home town in fall of 1984-Jan 1985; done non-paid volunteer training was the top of my class and and was told I got the highest scores of anyone of the service on the state exam Maybe it will help me to understand the DNA test i took for my family genealogy of which with all goign on I have not had time to study but its out there of others to contact me in my family research which is slow at this moment too.