lilswede

Thanks for all of your replies!! I am overwhelmed with gratitude!! You all had very encouraging words and I wish you all good health!! I will update you when I get more information about my Uncle's condition. I don't know when that will be. I think he gets out of the hospital tomorrow and has to recuperate from his surgery before he can start cancer treatments. You're all wonderful!! Love, LeAnn

You are a wonderful and remarkable woman for sharing your story with me and so soon after I posted. you are certainly full of hope and sound like a survivor. I want to learn as much as I can about this disease and until today, I never even gave it any thought. I just assumed that whatever they saw in Uncle Gary's lung would be something benign. It's not that I'm unrealistic or niave. I lost a son five years ago in an accident. I know bad things to happen. But the doctors were hopeful that it wouldn't be cancer. Now that we know it is I want to talk to survivors like yourself and learn everything there is to know about it. I should be asleep now but I am consumed with learning about this disease. Everything I'm reading about it makes it sound so dreadful. There must be long term survivors. Uncle Gary is otherwise relatively healthy. They only found it early because he was having regular cat scans for a problem with his adrenal gland four years ago that had something to do with a spider bite. The cancer area was very small and the doctor said he was happy because this is the first time he ever found it so early in a patient. I guess there will have to be further tests to know if it's spread to other areas. My Aunt is in shock right now and doesn't understand any of it. I don't think she is ready to find out the bleak prognosis of this type of cancer. I'm so happy to hear that your treatment is working sucessfully for you. I hope you will keep me updated and most of all I hope your cancer goes away and never comes back. God bless you and I pray for your good health. Thank you.

Hi I'm LeAnn. I'm here because I love my Uncle Gary with all my heart. I live in Oklahoma and he lives in Alabama. The doctor saw something in his lung that was too deep to biopsy so they had to remove the upper lobe of his right lung on Friday. The results of the biopsy confirmed it is small cell lung cancer. The doctor was happy that it was caught so early. He said he had never caught this type of cancer in such an early stage. I am here to find out about the survival rate of this type of cancer. I don't know if it has spread to other areas but to the best of my knowledge the only cancer was the one they removed when they removed the lobe. After he recuperates from the surgery the he has to start treatment to keep the cancer from spreading assuming it hasn't spread already. Has anyone survived this type of cancer? Is there hope for my Uncle Gary? I know it is the kind that spreads rapidly but it was caught very early because he was having a cat scan for a check up for something else when they saw something in his lung so he really didn't even have any symptoms yet. Does that mean that maybe they got it all and that with chemotherapy and or radiation treatment it's possible that he may be cancer free? I hope there is someone out there who can answer my questions who has had experience with this and whoever you are I hope you are now living a cancer free life. Thank you. LeAnn