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Prediagnosis as a young adult kinda
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@mamajite I’ve seen a pulmologist, she referred me to an ent after seeing how red my throat was and said that none of her patients had iron deficiency, and definitely not a cause of the deficiency with the little amount of blood I was spitting, that the picture I showed her of my pink spit was not coming from my lungs, interesting because I was REFERRED to one after being denied a ct from my previous pcp only to get denied again by the lung dr of the ct lmao. So my gastroenterology appointment is coming up I’m gonna have to get scopes to see if there’s any ulcer or something else depleting my iron my mom has celiac disease anemia and asthma. With stage 1b how long is the chemo, immunotherapy? or do they remove some of the lung?
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@ejjebdjeoe it's good they're checking your GI tract, too. that said, it's frustrating to be bounced around to various specialists. once you find a doctor who is a good listener and takes your concerns seriously, try to keep them as the quarterback of your care.
most people with stage 1 lung cancer have curative surgery, usually a lobectomy, sometimes followed with targeted therapy medication. bc I have so many nodules throughout both of my lungs, they can't remove them all. when I had a biopsy prior to diagnosis, 3 of the 4 nodules/tumors that were tested were malignant - but they each were individual cancers, not 1 that was spreading. so I took a targeted therapy medication for 2.5 years and had a good response. I started a medication pause last month.