We’re all pulling for you, and waiting for updates from your journey.

Keep visualizing the color green. Green symbolizes health, vitality, Spring, new growth and renewal and rebirth.

HUGS-HUGS-HUGS!!!

I hope that further testing will give you reassuring news.

what you have said and what your pulmonologist is reporting. So, hold on to that, please

You are in my thoughts, hopes, and well wishes.

I am speculating at this point. I don't really know anything.

You are a strong woman however we are here for you every step of the way.💙

Sincerely hope you get some positive vibes and results in the very near future. Take care

Went through a similar ordeal 4 years ago. Even got to ring the bell at the treatment center. Getting there was a challenge, including a botched Bronchoscopy.
I’m basically on the same follow-up schedule: CT every 6 months. Last one showed the “ground glass” tissue in that lung has dissipated.

I’m grateful and glad that they caught the tumor early. And that I had access to some quality care.

Hang in there!
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Thank you.

Thank all my fellow DU members for the support!

After Thanksgiving we are both getting tattoos that say "Fuck Cancer". I'm 64 and getting my first tattoo. This I actually want on my body and want to tell the world.

FUCK CANCER! May it go away like smallpox and become something future generations only read about.

All the best to you. I hope you have family and/or good friends to lean on as you go through this ordeal.

so let's hope when they do the bronchoscopy they just finds some damaged blood vessels in the area and cauterize them.

Cancer sucks. If you weren't frightened and angry, you'd be crazy.

My lung capacity is reduced because of the stereotactic radiation. It fried a lot of healthy cells around the tumor and I have a lot of shortness of breath that I did not have before. That area of my lung may never recover.

I hope you are right about the damaged blood vessels. I will do what the doctors recommend.

Thanks for your support.

improvement, murielm99.

This medical machinery can't help if it doesn't know where to help, so hang with them and never be afraid to ask questions, even of the technicians, and demand honesty and their best opinions.

Try to consider every new day in between as one where you enjoy the world, those whose companionship you value, and where you have the chance to do at least one one thing you still want to do.

We're here. Not going anywhere.

Best thoughts and wishes in your fight against that damn disease.

I am going to hope for good news from the pulmonologist. Please keep us up to date. Hugs.

by allowing yourself to feel your feelings. Hope you find a way to laugh here and there. And hope you find a way to enjoy your Thanksgiving.

You're such a great and valued poster here. You got this!! All the best.

Here's to beating it!

And hope for the best outcome.

I wish I could be there with you to give you support and hugs.

But, all I can do is send you virtual (((((hugs))))) and say how much I admire you and your wisdom and strong heart. You are definitely not finished and I hope that whatever treatments you endure, give you many more years.

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See people who know about it, get advice, hope that the advice isn't overly contradictory, and try to tough it out.

Both of my parents had cancer and so did ALL of their siblings. I already lost a cousin to brain cancer (à la McCain and Teddy Kennedy) at age 41. With me, it's not "if" but "when." I'm in no hurry.

My wife has already had it twice. She beat it both times, even though the second time, it was one of those "always fatal" versions. She was that one in ten thousand for whom it wasn't. Here's hoping your physicians find a way to put you in that category, too.

I hope she stays healthy, and you too!

Thank you for your encouragement. Thanks to all the supportive DU members.

It is rare, only strikes women who are elderly (she was 64 at the time) or very slender. At 5'10" and 130 pounds, she qualified. It is classified as "always fatal," with maybe on in ten thousand surviving it. My wife's diagnosis was by pure accident, just a tiny spot with zero manifestations. The reason it is called the murderer is that it is completely silent. By the time it shows, it is too late.

With my wife, it was three tiny spots on her uterus during a routine exam due to some tiny bleeding. The doctors said they were too tiny to be anything significant, but since she had already had cancer once (breast cancer at age 49), they'd biopsy the three spots just to be absolutely sure. On a woman with no cancer history, they probably wouldn't even have bothered. Two of the spots were indeed nothing, but the third one turned out to be The Murderer.

She was sent immediately to a specialty clinic that fortunately happened to be right here in Düsseldorf. We talked with the surgeon, who told us flat out that the murderer usually always claimed its victim, but he also said that he had NEVER seen it in this early a stage. They did a 5½ hour operation that left her in such pain when she woke up, she made liberal use of a spinal infusion of morphine any time she pressed the button. They only left that in a couple of days to prevent risk of infection. In such operations, they apparently usually take 10-15 biopsies to see if the cancer has spread, and if so, where. In her case, they took 84 biopsies (!!!). It took three days to get the results, but ALL 84 came back negative, something he said he had never seen before. The surgeon called us in, and gave us his opinion. He said usually a round of chemo was standard, but he thought that after the operation and the biopsy results, he thought that this one time, he had really gotten it all. He said it was her/our option, but this one time, he said he thought no chemo would make a difference. She remembered how awful the chemo was after her breast cancer, and said she was willing to take the risk, if he thought it was 50-50 that it would make no difference. That was 7 years ago, and she feels and looks fabulous for someone who is 71 and has had cancer treatment twice. She looks fabulous even for someone who is 71 and has had nothing at all.

So, while everyone is different, and I hope I can put up such a show of fortitude when it's my turn, she is a shining beacon for what can happen if you at least give yourself a chance in your own mind. I hope you have a few similar rabbits in your own hat, even if you have to scrounge around for them. Always keep a few carrots around just in case.

Sending lots of love and positive vibes to you murielm99!

While I don't have cancer yet I do have severe copd and its affiliated curses. Last biopsy was ok and the cysts in my lungs ,at least the BIG one was shrinking. Moved my cat scans back to every 6 months from 3 too. My supplemental oxygen is steadily increasing. Getting tired of hauling that damn oxygen bottle around lol. Worst part for me is knowing I did this to myself. At least yours isn't that. Hey, take all the solace you can.
Hoping for you!

I smoked for a long time. I quit many times, and finally scared myself out of it a few years ago. I am told that the tumor has been there for a long time. One day, it just woke up and decided to grow.

Please try to involve yourself in the holiday season as much as you can. My hope is that it will brighten things for you some.
I hope your Thanksgiving is a pleasant one, and shared with loved ones.
I also wish your next scan shows no growth.

I hope you qualify for the new immunotherapy treatments, like atezolizumab. It seems to be a game changer for adenocarcinoma lung cancer. Minimal side effects.

shortly before the doc involved with it told me I was not eligible because of my ambivilance.

He was a shit who seemed to believe the p.r. stuff about doctors being gods. He did not care about me. I did not seem to be a person to him, only another statistic or number for his trials.

I was 2B. Had a lobe removed. Just finishing a year's worth of immunotherapy infusions. Cancer free now.

The pulmonologist says I would not tolerate a lobe removal or resection. I don't know where we go from here.