Thursday, April 8, 2010

How to tell my mom who has lung cancer that they also found tumors in her brain

How to tell my mom who has lung cancer that they also found tumors in her brain?
My mom went on vacation to a foreign country were she became very ill. They found brain tumors and told us the family and kept it from her. She was in a really delicate state...hardly coherent. So she has no clue. Four months later she was able to return to Texas and needs to go to the doctor. We were told by MD Anderson that she will have to find out. They don't hold anything back from the patient. Thats what i was afraid of. How do we break that to her? Please help!!!
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Don't tell her! Let the medical experts break the news to her. She will have many questions and her doctor will be able to answer them, you won't.
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I would leave up to the doctor to say all that. they are very comforting and it will probably be better than you tellling her that. You can try your best to talk to her, make her feel better. I hope she recovers. :(
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Best to let the Medicals carry that burden ,however YOU be there for that much needed Support
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She deserves to know the truth as soon as possible. Why this information has been withheld from her is wrong. An adult of sound mind has a right to know the truth about their medical condition. Either the news can come from those she loves or from her doctors, it doesn't matter as long as she as told sooner rather than later. It is almost impossible to keep this type of information from a patient anyway . . you wouldn't want a neighbor to slip up and mention it . . than she might lose all trust in her family for 'hiding' this from her. Tell her. How do you tell her . . you sit down and start the hardest conversation you have ever had . . and you do it out of love and respect for her.
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I'm with Panda. I cannot understand how the prior doctors withheld that information from an adult patient. The doctors should be the one to break that news.
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I agree with everyone above who says that it is up to the doctor to break the news to the patient. I just want to add that my mother was treated for lung cancer at M.D. Anderson, and it's probably the best place in the country, if not the whole world, to be treated for cancer. All the doctors, nurses, and other personnel there are very competent and compassionate, and they have all the most up-to-date treatments and technology. Good luck with your mother.

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Sunday, April 4, 2010

OMG i feel like i have lung cancer please help

OMG i feel like i have lung cancer please help?
IM 16 and don't smoke but iv been around my whole family smoking lately iv developed back and chest pain while taking a deep breath also i have a pain right below my throat i keep feeling like i need to cough like i have mucus running down my throat...Im really freaked i have lung cancer
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You probably have asthma or sinus problems, just see your doctor and don't sweat it.
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it's normal for teenagers to get chest pain. the feeling in your throat could be from stress. or maybe you are getting sick with a cold or something. if you're really worried go to a doctor
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It is possible that you have developed some sort of allergy/asthma related to the smoke. Don't panick, but go to the doctor so they can check ya out.
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1. you don't have lung cancer - it just doesn't work that way 2. talk to your family about ways you can avoid their smoke. 3. relax - everything will be fine.
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If you think this is really serious, don't ask about it here, go see your doctor.
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My god, you have a freaking bronchial infection- calm the hell down, see a doctor, then see a shrink.
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Lung cancer develops in time (usually around 40/50ish).if you're really having problem breathing look for a doctor. U'll probably go for a chest x-ray.
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It sounds like it could be bronchitis. Go to a doctor and get taken care of. It's miserable to be around smokers isn't it? All five of the kids in my family, including me, used to smoke. I was the youngest and first to quit. Then everyone else but one brother quit. He died with cancer.
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The frequent early symptoms of lung cancer are: - Constant pain in the chest or elsewhere, (possibly from the cancer spreading to a bone). Excessive fatigue. Deteriorating breathlessness. Chronic cough. Weight loss &loss of appetite Hoarseness Wheezing Pyrexia of unknown origin Chest pain Dyspnea The above symptoms also being the symptoms of many other lung problems, to determine the cause, it is always worthwhile to see a physician. Once you entered the doctorâ€™s cabin, he will put forth frequent questions about your medical history, along with questions about your accidental or incidental exposure to hazardous chemicals. Physical Examination for an Early Symptom of Lung Cancer After inception of the early symptom of the lung cancer, your physician will subject you for physical examination. You may be asked to give a sample of sputum for the occurrence of cancer cells, if you are suffering from unrelenting cough with sputum (mucus). Other than this, for easy location of the abnormal spots in your lung, your doctor will order a specialized X-ray including CT scan or simple chest X-ray. In order to examine your lungs along with airways, your health care professional may use bronchoscope, and will take sample, or biopsy, of the tumor by means of the bronchoscope itself. Through either nostrils or mouth, the bronchoscope will be inserted into oneâ€™s lung. After finding the early symptom of the lung cancer, this is one of the several ways in which the doctor collects the biopsy sample. In order to recognize lung cancers of smaller size, most of the physicians are most likely use a modern CT scan in smokers, which can be treated and cured easily than the large sized lung cancer. To spot small sized cancers, the method called helical-low dose CT scan has been used extensively. If the cancer spreads to other parts of the body, various other symptoms may occur. That is, if there is metastasis. With the following possible symptoms for each area, Lung cancer can spread to the liver, the brain, or the bones: Brain: headaches, seizures, nausea, vomiting, weakness Liver: stomach pain (especially the right side), jaundice Bones: bone pain An MRI, a bone scans and CT scan are the common tests to find out the metastasis stage of your lung cancer after observing the early symptom of lung cancer.

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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Does the symptom of coughing up blood appear to the lung cancer of 0.5 centimeter

Does the symptom of coughing up blood appear to the lung cancer of 0.5 centimeter?
In a case of It is generated in the bronchial tube at the entrance of lungs ?
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Nothing appears to cancer. Cancer cannot see or think it is a disease. Coughing up blood is not a typical symptom of lung cancer and a tumor 0.5cm would not likely cause any symptoms.

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