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Multifocal Adenocarcinoma of the lung, continual recurrences
Lung Cancer | Last Active: Jun 14 6:32pm | Replies (472)Comment receiving replies
@akfishinmom1- You hit the nail on its head! The problem with treating Multifocal lung cancer is that there isn't enough KNOWN information known yet. To answer your question, with a question- "what would be used to zap the lesions if they aren't cancerous?" I suppose that "do no harm" has something to do with this too. Any treatment will cause some damage to your healthy lung tissue.
If I wasn't involved in a conversation that might answer questions that I had I would get a second opinion. You have the right to have your questions answered so that you understand them. Your biomarker test was to test if there are any variants in your cancer. Lung cancer has several and it's tested because certain treatments have been found to treat them differently. This is used after surgery. It's called immunotherapy.
Have you been told that you will have further treatment?
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I had a follow up appointment a month after surgery with the oncologist and no treatment was prescribed. Other than a brief conversation about the biomarker test which is when she mentioned she talked to the surgeon about it, the remaining talk was about which stage I was. Very brief appointment. I did not get a postoperative follow up with my surgeon as he also works from a different state and was there at the time. Follow up was with the PA surgical assistant which was a little disappointing since I did have some questions specifically for him. So for now I guess it’s the wait and see approach. I have a 6 month CT scan in March and a appointment with the surgeon to go over it. I am considering a different oncologist as I don’t feel like they are very informative. I guess I just wonder why if you have a biomarker mutation they don’t treat with medication to reduce or get rid of other lesions that could possibly become cancerous and need surgery or radiation. I might be over thinking this but will definitely ask my new oncologist. I think your right that they don’t want to over treat too.