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They found that, if recurrences were going to ever happen, about 50% occurred within the first year, at least two-thirds within two years, and about 80% or more within three years. (click on image to enlarge) This really corroborates the experience of clinicians caring for patients after surgery. Once you get out 2-3 years after surgery, odds ...
Unlike CT scans, which are great at discerning shape and size of internal parts of the body, PET scans are metabolic studies that hold the promise of distinguishing between residual viable cancer and non-viable scar tissue after surgery or radiation. A handful of studies in the post-treatment setting show that PET scans have a 96% sensitivity ...
Video-Assisted Thorascopic Surgery vs. Open Thoracotomy. Transcript. Historically, lung cancer has been treated with a large incision between the ribs, and in the early-mid ‘90s we began to investigate uses of the laparoscope, which was used to do gallbladders and so forth, in the chest. So we began using the devices to do more limited ...
Posts: 2. I am 76 years old and have bad arthritis in both hips; surgeons recommend hip replacement - bilateral or twice unilateral. I am also a stage 4 lung cancer survivor (2 1/2 years; the last two years in "remission" with ongoing chemo - Alimta and Avastin every three weeks. For other reasons (protein in the urine) the Avastin was stopped ...
After lobectomy surgery - 1294857. I had stage 1 lung cancer. Had lobectomy 11 weeks ago. Removed bottom two lobes, right lung. No chemo needed. Taking Cymbalta for nerve pain and it has calmed down. Severe tightness under my right breast and very heavy on right side.
While the prevailing standard of care for resectable lung cancer is a lobectomy or pneumonectomy, we want the surgery to be as appropriate as possible for patients. That means not short-changing patients by doing a lesser surgery than they need to do as well as possible with the cancer, but also not overtreating patients with a more aggressive ...
Lung nodule growing - 1263339. Tue, 04/22/2014 - 11:41. porcelana. Posts: 4. This is my story: I am a 36 and a half year old woman, smoker (a pack a day for 18 years). On May 2012 in a CT Scan they found a nodule on my lung ( lower right lobe ) that was about 5mm x 10 mm. They did follow-ups, and on July 2013 it had still not changed.
After all this, I am just trying to find any good info on what to expect, treatments, anything. She obviously cannot have surgery in that area any more. Doctor felt he got all the tumor with the first surgery. Said that same thing after the second surgery. I want to make sure that everything is being done to help combat this disease.
So, I would say that her recovery from the pneumonectomy was not necessarily fast, but it was steady - - and her quality of life was relatively good as far as breathng was concerned for most of that time. The BP fistula and disease progression in her remaining left lung are what later caused problems for her. Anyway, I hope this was helpful. . .
Howard (Jack) West, MD. A cancer has to grow faster than the tissue around it to become a tumor. Progressive growth is therefore a central feature of a cancer and a critical factor in distinguishing cancerous nodules from benign ones. There is a characteristic "volume doubling time" (VDT), the interval it takes for a nodule to double in volume.