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Living with lung cancer - Introduce yourself & come say hi

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Apr 22 8:17pm | Replies (1154)

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Hi, I started with the atrial fibrillation with arrhythmia and atrial flutter group. I knew I had some more heart problems and was recently told by the new cardiologist that I had coronary artery disease too. Yesterday afternoon I got an answer to some of my other health issues. I also have non small cell carcinoma of my left lung. Since I don’t really know much about this yet, I kind of am just thinking wow. Because I was told about it in the late afternoon no treatments have been mentioned yet. The oncologist said he was making an appointment with a thoracic surgeon for me. I had to look up what kind of a surgeon that was which sounds kind of grim.

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@lisahar , I'm sorry to hear that you are adding lung cancer to your list. If they are looking at surgery, it may have been found at an early stage. That's good news. Lung cancer treatments have greatly improved over the past 10 years. Many people are diagnosed and successfully treated each year. Did you have a CT scan, and/or a PET scan to identify the cancer?