- Wed 8/3 Tufts: Their diagnosis - possibility of surgery and chemo?
- Thu 8/4 Brigham & Women's: Not a candidate for surgery, straight to chemo!
- Fri 8/5 Brigham & Women's: PET scan
- Thu 8/11 Brigham & Women's: Biopsy
- Thu 8/18 Dana Farber Cancer Institute: Meet with oncology team, Dr. Paul Marcoux, Medical Director of the Thoracic Dept. and his nurse
I feel assured that my mom has the best possible medical team.
So it's stage 4 small cell lung cancer. Prognosis is not good, on average people live to a year. The cancer always comes back and will eventually spread to the brain. It's so hard to hear especially when it's repeated again by the interpreter in Chinese. I couldn't hold back the tears as I had a list of questions to ask the doctor. This bites!!! Yet my mom is still the strong one.