We need some input....
My husband has a mass on his left lower lobe of his lung and in a lymph node next to his heart.
The pet scan revealed that these areas are glowing pretty good.
The Dr. has not gotten a biopsy until last Friday. We don't know what kind of cancer it is yet, but Dr. is planning on removing his whole left lung next week.
We are scrambling trying to get a second opinion. They are doing a MRI of the Brain tomorrow and a bone scan on Thurs. At our insisting.
The Dr. removed four inactive nodes from his trachea area between his lungs to see if it has spread. Next week the plan is if they are negative to go in through his side and remove the node affected next to his heart and take out his lung. if positive start Kemo & Rad.
We asked our primary Dr. for a referral for a second opinion but he said that we have the best Dr's. We don't want to delay things or make the Dr. mad what should we do?
Is this normal to remove before shrinking?
diagnosis code is 239.1 what ever that means!
198.3 unknown malignancy - eval. for metastatic disease confirmed.
eval. for intracranial mastatic disease with unknown primary tumor.
Help please!