Fede wrote:Today, I woke up very early, I had to go get the PT / SCAN of my father, went to the hospital running, and I withdraw the report and tomographic images. I almost died, I saw 3 images hypodense of 2 cm each in the segment VI. He received his last round of chemo the last week of April, less than one month and a half. This is your first cycle after your surgery of liver in mid-February. So I thought, the surgery did not work and the last 4 rounds of chemo either. I was thinking about a transplant, I would give my father half my liver. When I got home, urgent call to the oncologist, and I tell her if possible this situation. She responds, which may be spaces in the liver that have not been filled through the regeneration process and added that check where the transplant surgeon carried out resections. I check it, and coincided, with black spots where they were placed clips and resections were made. Someone had experienced this situation?
Let me make sure I understand, Fede - you went and picked up the latest scan for your father and then tried to interpret it (and diagnose what you saw) all by yourself without any professional medical input? And you basically scared yourself to death coming up with an interpretation that was completely incorrect? And then, when you talk to your dad's doctor, she was able to clear up your misunderstanding - but you're still blaming the labs and other modern medicine for your fears?
Several people on this board have experienced this, Fede - second-guessing their doctors and their diagnoses. It's a result of thinking that you can't wait for results, and that you have enough personal medical knowledge to successfully interpret scans and reports on your own without medical help. But when these people who also experienced this shock that "it didn't work" took the time to consult with their oncologists, surgeons and radiologists,
they were able to avoid all the panic and fear that you went through yesterday when you pulled the scan results and tried to interpret them on your own. Aren't you glad that you took the time to speak with the oncologist, and get a professional medical opinion from someone who has more experience reading (and interpreting!) scan results, so that you could understand them more accurately?
Fede wrote: On Monday we go to the hospital. Once again I think and confirm that we are prisoners of the laboratories, according to information I get from the last congress of cancer.
I dunno, Fede. Once again, it seems to me that you are far more a "prisoner" of your own fears, perceptions about what it appropriate for your father's treatment, and complete lack of trust in your father's doctors. As I and others have posted to you before, it's fine to do your own research and ask questions. But there comes a point in treatment when you have to recognize that maybe, just maybe, his doctors DO know what they are doing.
I would hope, for instance, that this experience might show you that your dad's doc's skills in scan interpretation are stronger than your own. I would hope that this experience might show you that maybe, next time, you don't need to pull the scans, race to the hospital, and try to do your own interpretation of the scan results without medical help. I would hope that you could use this experience to recognize where you need to trust and rely on the labs, the doctors, and the reports. I realize that you spend a lot of time doing your own research. I've read countless times in your posts that you have all kinds of medical control experience. But as I and others have posted to you before, you are not a doctor. Your work experience clearly doesn't make you qualified to interpret your father's scans (as this incident should show you!)
Please, Fede - if you continue to try to out-think and second-guess your father's doctors, you're going to make yourself and your father even more concerned and nervous than you already are. Spend your time breathing, supporting your dad, and learning to understand this life with cancer - not trying to out-diagnose the professionals...I promise you'll be calmer and happier for that effort.
Be well.