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Multifocal Adenocarcinoma of the lung, continual recurrences

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Jun 14 6:32pm | Replies (472)
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@merpreb

Good morning Vic. If you looked at all of my lesions it would look like a road map across some strange country. Isn't it amazing what information we are sometimes in the dark about?

Although no cancer is good cancer, multifocal, I like to think as a chronic disease. Treatments are only used as needed. And this means that lesions are treated after they get to a certain size. It sounds as if you have a great doctor who knows about multifocal lung cancer.

Multifocal lung cancers for the most part can be very very lazy. It's a good thing, right?

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vic83 | @vic83 | Dec 14, 2022

Hi Merry. That was my reaction too. Multifocal is like chronic cancer. Maybe they should change the name?
I was fortunate because things went so fast for me. I had an abnormal chest x-ray, and 7 weeks later I was at Mayo where I was diagnosed, staged and treated all in ONE MORNING - Robotic Bronchoscopy, Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) for lymph nodes and VAT wedge resection surgery to remove cancer. Two days later I was home.
I put all my nodules in a spread sheet to track them from CT scan to CT scan.
That Mayo ten- year multifocal lung cancer study is out in October 2023. Wish I could get a sneak peek! They must know something now.
In February 2022, Mayo added Multifocal Lung Cancer to the list of cancers they treat on their Internet site Lung Cancer page.

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