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ELLIE1

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  1. WELL THE DOC CALLED AND SAID HE HAS CANCER BUT THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT KIND HE SAID THEY HAD TO SEND A SAMPLE OF THE BIOPSY TO HERSHEY FOR MORE TESTING HE SAID MAYBE IT CAME FROM THE COLON CANCER AND SAID WHAT EVER IT IS WAS SPREADING SINCE IT IS IN BOTH LOBES ON THE LEFT SIDE ANYONE EVER HEARD OF THIS?STILL KNOW NOTHING.
  2. THEY DID PUT HIM ON MEDS FOR BACTERIAL INFECTIONS AND WHEN THE DOC GOT THE RESULTS HE SAID STOP TAKING THAT IT WON'T HELP SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WOULD RULE OUT TB OR NOT IF THEY TREAT THAT WITH ANTIBIOTICS.
  3. MY GRANDFATHER WENT TO THE FAMILY DOC LAST THURS THEY SAID THEY COULD SEE THE BOTTOM OF HIS LEFT LUNG BUT NOT THE TOP IT WAS ALL WHITE.HE WENT FOR A CAT ON FRI THEY TOLD US BACK AT THE DOC OFFICE ON FRI THAT IT WAS CANCER THEN WE HAD TO WAIT TILL TODAY TO SEE ANOTHER DOC HE TOLD US NOTHING JUST WE HAVE TO GO TOMORROW FOR A TEST THEY WILL PUT A NEEDLE IN HIS CHEST AND TAKE FLUID TO DO A BIOPSY.IS THERE A CHANCE THIS COULD BE TB OR SOMETHING? THIS IS WHAT THE REPORT SAYS.THERE IS AN ENLARGED CHEST WALL BASE LF UPPER LUNG MASS.IT IS SEEN AS HIGH AS THE APEX OF THELEFT HEMITHOROX AND EXTENDS INFERIORLY TO APPROX THE LEVEL OF THE LT MAINSTEM BRONCHUS BIFURCATION.THE MAX DIMENTION IS APPROX 10CM.IT IS IN DIRECT CONTINUITY W/THE LT HILUM.THERE ARE NO CONTRALATERAL LYMPH NODES PRESENT.THERE APPEARS TO BE A SECOND MASS WITHIN THELT LOWER LOBE ABUTTING THE LATERAL CHEST WALL WHICH MEASURES 3.5 CM IN MAX DIMENSION.THERE IS A LF PLEURAL EFFUSION.
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