 Re: nodule inside the throat
Nisar wrote :
"HI, My father is 55 years old man..
Since past 3 / 4 month his voice got changed and hence we consulted a
doctor. After all the check ups, it came out that he is suffering from
vocal cord cancer (Initial stage)..
Doctors adviced a radial operation which will be happening on this
thursday... Now my only concern is whether my dad will become 100% fit
after the operation ??
How will be his survival chancess.. means whether he will leave longer
life after this or not..
According to the doctors, after operation he would servive longer...
Please help me if anyone know about this.. my whole family is in
dipration."
Hi Nisar, welcome to this group. You'll find many friendly people here with
a wide range of experiences who have been where you and your family are.
I think if you give us a little more information about the type of your
father's cancer and its stage, you can get better advice here. And if we
know if your father is being treated in a major cancer clinic, or a state
owned hospital, that also may help us understand your situation. Is there a
medical social worker or Nurse Oncology specialist on the team that may
hellp you and your family to clearer undrestanding ?
The "fact" that jumps out at me from your message is that, for whatever
reasons, you and your family are not getting the information you need from
your father's doctor(s) and/or medical team. Or you are not getting the
information in a form you can understand, that is clear to you, and that
meets your needs for understanding and planning for what is going to happen
with your father.
Of course that is disturbing, stressful, painful.
There can be many reasons for your not getting the information you need, and
without knowing more, I think it would be pointless to speculate. Sometimes
family members withhold information from other family members because they
want to spare them painful knowledge of how serious a condition is. There
could be so many causes for your not getting the information you need at
this point in time.
One of the difficulties many of us have faced is learning to live with,
accepting, the uncertainty about cancer, about its diagnosis, about its
treatment, and about whether or not we will in the future have a recurrence,
what our chances are, so to speak. Our minds, naturally, want to be able to
make a "picture" of a future in which we anticipate getting back to full
health.
For a given type of cancer, at a certain stage, your doctor, and/or medical
team, may or may not be able to give you "solid" information because the
research figures they know can only be accurate for a very large group of
people on average. Predicting the outcome for any one individual is often
impossible.
I've been told that the type of cancer I have has a 30% chance of coming
back the first year after initial treatment. So I can know that for a very
large group of people with this cancer, say 10,000, that by the end of one
year perhaps 3000 will have a recurrence, but for myself : my doctors and I
can't know what my "odds" are.
Your father has every right to clear information from your doctors and/or
medical team. You and your family, as well as your father, should clearly
undrestand why the operation you describe as "radical" is being performed :
there's almost certainly a good scientific reason for it.
Doctors and medical teams naturally don't want to raise false hopes. It is
their duty to be "conservative" in sharing information, sometimes.
Hope these thoughts are helpful, Uncle Sally
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