My father has lung cancer

MattH · ‎08-14-2009

My father learned today that he has a small nodule of lung cancer. I gather this is a slow-growing
one, as the doctors want to do another scan and biopsy in October, but I have no idea what the
long-term prognosis is. They had been puzzled for a while because he was retaining too much

fluid, and I gather now they think this may be the cause of that.

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llecs · ‎08-14-2009

Sorry, Matt.

Guardian · ‎08-14-2009

I am very sorry to hear that my friend. As someone who has tangled with something similar, I can tell you that it sucks but be positive and keep at it and hope for the best. I wish you all the best.

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Henrietta23 · ‎08-14-2009

Matt, this is a big day for you and your family. I hope you receive lots of support. It has been 29 years since I learned that my father had lung cancer. You are lucky to still have your father. You will be able to make many wonderful memories that will stay with you throughout your life.

Math_Rocks · ‎08-14-2009

Matt,

I'm so, so sorry to hear this. I hate, hate, hate cancer and it has stolen way too many loved ones. Take it a day at a time (and there may be days when you take it an hour or one minute at a time) but keep putting one foot in front of the other. There will be bad days but there will also be many good days. Remember that the doctors are not God; they do their best to advise and predict but they are only human.

You and yours are in my thoughts.

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MattH · ‎08-15-2009

Thanks everybody for your support.

During the night I dreamed that we had taken a sample of tissue from Dad's lung and run it through our genomics systems and I was analyzing the data using the same statistical data mining tools as I use in my work as a pharmaceutical researcher.

Of course in the real world my training as a research scientist will be of extremely limited value in this situation; I work on viral diseases and know very very little about oncology so we'll have to trust the physicians here.

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EX always was my highest when we could pull all three
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Scamp · ‎08-15-2009

Sorry to hear the news, Matt.

I hope they've caught it early enough and can treat it and make him be one of the ones who comes out the other side okay; not every case of lung cancer is terminal, so I'll be keeping fingers crossed that he's one of those 'not everys'.

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fishbjc · ‎08-16-2009

VERY SORRY to read this Matt. It's a horrible disease. I hope it was caught early enough to make a difference for him.

Hugs, R

MsKiwi · ‎08-16-2009

Sending you and your father my best thoughts.

Anonymous · ‎08-16-2009

So sorry to hear about your father, Matt.