Lee wrote:Can you get a PET scan? If cancerous, those 4 nodules should light up. Sometimes people can have nodules in there lungs and NOT be cancer.
And yes, if I were you, I would get a 2nd opinion at a major cancer treatment center.
Do you know if you are getting FOLFOX? How about Avastin?
I would recommend eating prior to chemo, I usually grabbed an breakfast egg cheese sandwich on the way to chemo. For me, keeping food in my stomach, kept nausea at bay, Thus I ate several small meals vs 3 meals a day.
Good luck, let us know how it goes with your first chemo treatment.
Lee
level wrote: . . . they seem to believe that the lungs aren't related because there was no cancer in my liver and nothing in the lymphnodes. I wonder if that's a big waste of time when I have to get treatment anyway.
level wrote:
I have had a PET scan. 3 of the 4 lit up. I am getting folfox and avastin.
level wrote:Thank you both so much for just taking the time to respond. I'm in tears just from the fact that you're willing to share. If I can ask another question, did you all feel fine, normal prior to diagnosis? I guess the hardest part of this for me is that they are telling me I have this condition and I don't feel anything unusual.
TXLiz wrote:I had a complete blockage from a huge tumor in my abdomen and never felt any abdominal pain. Crazy, right? I was diagnosed with IBS around 2010/11 and have had diarrhea or constipation on and off. I never saw any visible blood in my stool. I didn't have any nausea or vomiting except for the day I went to the ER and was diagnosed. I think the only sign may have been fatigue, but nothing that alerted me.
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