Beth_90

Hi all! Firstly I apologise for the long winded post and if I’m in the wrong place but I came across this forum when searching for answers and advice for my grandma who isn’t upto date with today’s technology and asked me to post for her! So our ( I say our as my grandma lives with me and my little girl so I'm here on this journey with her ) all started a few weeks ago when I contacted her GP to request some build up drinks as her appetite isn’t the greatest and I was worried she would be lacking in nutrients etc, she had recently just had her yearly general health check with her bloods being taken and all was fine. Dr said that due to her BMI being fine they wouldn’t prescribe the drinks. Long story short to this part he said due to her being a smoker he would send her off for a chest X-ray. Little did we expect she got a call back within hours of her X-ray to say it had shown 2 shadows on her left lung and for the X-ray to be repeated in a months time. Again, she got the call the shadows still there and was being fast tracked on the 2 week cancer pathway due to her history of smoking. Last week she had her first CT scan, then today, we have been to her lung health appointment and feel slightly deflated and not really knowing what to expect, consultant has said on her Ct scan there is a suspicious area and he can’t say for certain it is cancer but if it is to be then it’s likely to be adenocarcinoma? The report from the Ct scan still wasn’t back so he was unable to really give much else but is expecting the report to be fairly much the same as what he has told us today. He’s requesting she goes for a PET scan and lung test, which possibly a biopsy. Our questions I guess are, how are they able to say it’s likely to be adenocarcinoma but can’t be certain it’s cancer and if it is to be then there is things they can do, grandma is 84 and won’t stop smoking ( fully her decision as she doesn’t really do much else ) has anybody dealt with this before and does the fact she has to go for a PET scan indicate they are fairly confident on a cancer diagnosis? thanks so much for anybody who has taken the time to read this 😊