My mom has recently died from cancer. I had too many questions my dad or her couldn't answer. All I ever got from them was "we don't know, no one knows, doctors all have different answers".
It's quite sad. They hurried around the medical system with very vague information. Apparently they were dismissive of her questions and concerns and just kept referring her to other locations for possible treatments until it was too late and all she could do was rely on hospice. I'm at a loss as to what may have really been going on inside her body.
What I do know was, her first diagnosis was malignant myeloma. Then they found a huge mass in her lungs, so also lung cancer. No one knows what came first.
Is there any way to find out by probability? Is it possible for myeloma to cause lung cancer or more possible vice versa?
It's just so shocking because no one in our bloodline has had cancer and now both my brother and I are worried about our own health now. She was a smoker but it is said myeloma isn't caused by smoking, which is why I was all over the place with questions initially.
Is it possible that she had undiagnosed myeloma and the smoking aggravated the tumor upon her lungs? Is there anything I should be worried about for myself or my brother? Any steps we can take to help detect this in ourselves earlier, or is it not really a possibility since she is seems to have been the only one to have gotten this?
Before she even got diagnosed, I had a genome test done on myself because of unexplained health issues, S is there a polymorphism or specific gene that has been identified in relation to this?
Thank you so much for your time and I'm sorry for all of your struggles and pain, I'm sorry you have to deal with this horrible disease and I hope there is a breakthrough soon.
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Re: Lung cancer & myeloma - any connection?
Sorry to hear about your mom.
Just a question: what did she do for work most of her life?
Just a question: what did she do for work most of her life?
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Little Monkey - Name: Little Monkey
- Who do you know with myeloma?: Father-stage 1 multiple myeloma
- When were you/they diagnosed?: March/April of 2015
Re: Lung cancer & myeloma - any connection?
Theend,
So sorry to hear about your mother.
Was you mom's lung cancer ever specifically diagnosed as a distinct lung cancer via a biopsy? If not, I wonder if the lung mass might have been what is known as an extramedullary plasmacytoma associated with her myeloma (basically a myeloma-related tumor that forms elsewhere in the body instead of within the skeleton)?
So sorry to hear about your mother.
Was you mom's lung cancer ever specifically diagnosed as a distinct lung cancer via a biopsy? If not, I wonder if the lung mass might have been what is known as an extramedullary plasmacytoma associated with her myeloma (basically a myeloma-related tumor that forms elsewhere in the body instead of within the skeleton)?
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Multibilly - Name: Multibilly
- Who do you know with myeloma?: Me
- When were you/they diagnosed?: Smoldering, Nov, 2012
Re: Lung cancer & myeloma - any connection?
She was a stay-at-home mom.
She was officially diagnosed with lung cancer but also had multiple tumors in her bones. It appears they were more concerned about the lung cancer, but the tumors in her bones were causing her the most discomfort.
She was officially diagnosed with lung cancer but also had multiple tumors in her bones. It appears they were more concerned about the lung cancer, but the tumors in her bones were causing her the most discomfort.
Re: Lung cancer & myeloma - any connection?
Was her first diagnosis malignant melanoma, or multiple myeloma?
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rumnting - Who do you know with myeloma?: husband
- When were you/they diagnosed?: 4/9/11
- Age at diagnosis: 54
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