Living with lung cancer - Introduce yourself & come say hi

That is great to hear, I am so glad to hear that can actually happen... I am new to this group and also brand new to adenocarcinoma lung cancer. I am exploring options at this point, although current advice is to wait 5 months until next CT scan to see if there has been growth....I have requested targeted radiation but met with hesitation as the word was that side effects from the radiation not currently worth the risk..i would appreciate how the shrinkage occurred - radiation?
suraleah

My husband has been diagnosed with stage 2b lung cancer, 2 weeks back had lobectomy(left low lobe), now referred to medical oncologist, he is pDL1 positive and HRD positive.

So glad for you. I wish for the same.

Thank You!
Merry Christmas and Happy Year!
Prayers for everyone!

Yea!!! Merry Christmas!

@sura- Life sure does tax us at times! I am very sorry for your husband's passing.

I wish you the best with Mayo Clinic. I use another hospital because I live in New England, and we have Mass General! I was even there once when Teddy Kennedy was hospitalized.

Take care of yourself this holiday.

Merry

Good Morning,

Great News!
Adeno lung tumor shrunk. So, Thankful
CT in 4 months

Oh I have been imagining all this, as the time is closer to each CT scan the anxiety increases. What treatment have you had? When my nodules grow or become otherwise worrisome I am playing to make a trip to Mayo for their opinion and maybe for their treatment as well. They are no longer doing out-of-state consultations, I am in Chicago so it's a 5-6 hour drive to Minnesota Mayo. I have been going alone to my appointments - went to all hospital visits with my husband for 4-l/2 years for his prostate cancer treatments, in clinical trials. He died 3 years ago and I still acutely remember the hospital visits & anxiety....yikes, sometimes life asks so much.

@sura- You certainly have been busy! I've had lesions that have been too small that a PET won't pick them up either. Right now, I'm waiting for a CT on January 19th. I am not looking forward to this at all. I might ask my sister to come with me. I travel out of town for Cancer treatments. It takes a little over an hour and then I have to take a taxi through Boston traffic. As is I won't have enough anxiety!

good to know others are out there! every little twitch now worries me, it is ridiculous... I am trying to master this, there will be lots of time to worry. Thoracic clinic is confident we do nothing right now, quality of life is fine. Removing the 3 large nodules would not significantly alter breathing and docs believe I would do well with the surgery. But they do not want to do it now, adenocarcinomas are too small, doubled in size over 7 years. They will refer me to a radiation oncologist if I wish, but believe they would advise to do nothing at this point. and a PET scan would not pick up something this small. I believe we will know more with the next CT scan in May - has the tissue changed? Have they grown? So until then I am trying to master being calm, not yet successful. I am sure I should be appreciative we caught this so early and somewhere in there I am, but still worried for the long-haul future, What is your situation?
helpful.