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Oct. 26th, 2016 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kkatowllSo. Alice's CAT scan came back and it's not good.
The tumor is bigger than before. There is a slight chance that could be scar tissue.
Also there's more specks in the lymph nodes.
So, it sounds like it is stage 3 lung cancer after all.
She is getting a PET scan in three weeks (can't do it earlier because it has to be a certain time after the radiation). Then meeting with oncologist.
The median life expectancy with stage 3 is 15 months. At that time, 50 percent of the people diagnosed have died.
15 months.
KB would be 3. Maybe three. This could be our last Christmas.
I am just so devastated.
There is some hope. Maybe they could operate, though it's dicey with her health. There are a lot of new medications now. The life expectancy figures are always a couple years old so they don't reflect the newest treatments.
This sucks.
The tumor is bigger than before. There is a slight chance that could be scar tissue.
Also there's more specks in the lymph nodes.
So, it sounds like it is stage 3 lung cancer after all.
She is getting a PET scan in three weeks (can't do it earlier because it has to be a certain time after the radiation). Then meeting with oncologist.
The median life expectancy with stage 3 is 15 months. At that time, 50 percent of the people diagnosed have died.
15 months.
KB would be 3. Maybe three. This could be our last Christmas.
I am just so devastated.
There is some hope. Maybe they could operate, though it's dicey with her health. There are a lot of new medications now. The life expectancy figures are always a couple years old so they don't reflect the newest treatments.
This sucks.
