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Wife Just Diagnosed w/ ES SCLC - What Can We Expect?

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Aug 20, 2022 | Replies (222)
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@dedehans

I am sorry to hear it is in the pancreas and brain and now will be the time the doctors will identify what kind of cancer it is and how to treat it best. I am hoping you are currently set up to see doctors at Mayo or Cancer hospital. You will have a team of doctors who specialize in whatever liz' tumor types are and decide how to treat it. The waiting element is very hard and most of us here have been through it. From day of diagnosis til Surgery 3 months....day of surgery to starting treatment another 6 weeks.

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rlogan | @rlogan | Mar 7, 2022

Dede, thanks for sharing!! We have an appointment tomorrow with the Dr. that will perform the biopsy(ies). They will also be scheduling the placement of a mediport for needed chemo at the same time as the biopsy, if warranted. Another appointment is later in the day with a Radiologist to look at treatment options for the affected brain areas. We are hoping that the wait for biopsy results will not be long after our initial consultation tomorrow so that we can start chemo and/or other beneficial treatments.

We pre-registered Liz at Mayo-JAX a few weeks ago and sent what records we have today so they will be available to the Mayo team as soon as the biopsy results are known. PUSH-PUSH-PUSH....

The internet can be a wonderful thing!!

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