Mother of Swans
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Stage IV lung cancer EGFR19, seeking more time with my children. Jersey City gritty and proud. America first🇺🇸
Philadelphia, PA
Joined August 2021
@rockytfs @doc_BLocke @VPrasadMDMPH There are so many YOUNG never smokers who are screened out. Myself included. By the time there are symptoms, it’s often too late to be cured. How many people die from incidental findings? Serious question. The current system needs to change.
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How many people die from incidental findings vs how many die from not checking?
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@rockytfs @doc_BLocke @VPrasadMDMPH I understand where you are coming from -living without, and not losing family to lung cancer
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Not to be rude but a breast cancer commercial during the Super Bowl when lung cancer kills so many more is a bit offensive. Would have been a great platform to inform people that cancer has more colors than just pink.
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@illium51 Recent. Tonsil not alarming for me as I’ve had it react before. Been an issue since childhood even after removal. Axillary concerns me
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@illium51 Thanks Mike. I wasn’t really happy about only taking one of the cervical nodes last time. Two totally different locations. It is cancerous until proven otherwise.
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If over diagnosis is common, let's just ignore all lung cancer findings now. Sounds like a solid plan. Because clearly, a 47-year-old non-smoker with a history of symptoms is just another statistic in your overdiagnosis bingo card. Let's just play it safe and assume all lung nodules are overdiagnosed until proven otherwise. What could go wrong?
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@doc_BLocke @VPrasadMDMPH Oh, so because it wasn't part of a fancy screening program, we should just ignore it? Brilliant logic. 🤔 Because clearly, finding a lung nodule by accident isn't as important as finding it in a scheduled screening. Right.
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One size does not fit all! 👏
Great question! The correct answer is that no one knows for any patient. Although we are much more likely to be aggressive in a 55 year old person with smoking history (vs 85 non smoker), & depending how the mass exactly looks, we have no randomized data to show if we help or hurt, and if it varies by these effect modifiers
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Who wants to tell him?
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@LuisRaezMD @MerusNV Thank you. I will have to look that one up. Never heard of it. So happy treatments for more people
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