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Adenocarcinoma - newly diagnosed

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Jul 17, 2023 | Replies (164)
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@donnatownsend

Thank you. They are wanting me to start chemotherapy/radiation and then if able immunotherapy. The Oncologist said that the tests would take 2 weeks to get back. But after thinking about it. I will move forward,, however I am going to wait on the molecular results. I just can’t see killing good cells? They gave up biopsy the lymph nodes that are showing up.

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Lisa, Volunteer Mentor | @lls8000 | May 1, 2023

@donnatownsend, I’m glad to hear you are getting the molecular/biomarker tests. It should be standard of care, but still doesn’t always happen. If you are able to tolerate the symptoms that you are experiencing, it may be worth waiting for the results. If they identify a mutation the treatments can be significantly different than for other lung cancers.
My cancer is an adenocarcinoma, and is caused by the ALK mutation. If they gave up on the lymph node biopsy, did they do a liquid/blood biopsy for the molecular test?

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