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followup testing after lung carcinoid

Neuroendocrine Tumors (NETs) | Last Active: Aug 20, 2017 | Replies (7)

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@johnbishop

Hello Faith (@collielady), welcome to Connect. You've come to the right place to ask questions and find out what others have done for treatment of similar health issues. I'm not familiar with followup testing after surgery for lung carcinoids but thought I would jump in until others with better information can join in and offer what they know. The American Cancer Society has a little information that may be helpful here:

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/lung-carcinoid-tumor/after-treatment/follow-up.html

Did your doctor team or surgeons discuss any follow up treatments with you that you can share?

Also, I would like to share one of my favorite tools for finding information including recent articles, testing, treatments on pretty much anything. Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/) is a great place to do your own research. It really helps to be your own advocate - and that's what you are doing here on Connect. Here's an example - I did a search on Google Scholar using your phrase "follow up testing after surgery for lung carcinoids" and it returned the following results. I also clicked on 2017 at the left to get the most recent results.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2017&q=follow+up+testing+after+surgery+for+lung+carcinoids&hl=en&as_sdt=0,24

Keep asking questions and learn as much as you can about your health concern! You really are your best advocate.

John

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Thank you, John. I will do more research.
Actually it is my sister who had the surgery for lung carcinoid. I have become the family advocate for her and my nephew with Merkel cell carcinoma (a rare NET) and now another sister's boyfriend who has an autoimmune thyroiditis which causes pernicious anemia and gastric atrophy and has higher chance of stomach carcinoid.
Faith

Faith (@collielady) - Thank you for being the family advocate. It is no easy task and you are a blessing to your family for helping them. I'm really glad you've found Connect and hoping you find lots of help and information here.

John