First things first, my sincere thanks for maintaining this forum in which people with a diagnosis or a suspicion of lung cancer can raise our doubts and expose our fears. I am scared to death. I have a recent diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. I am a 55 …

I had someone mention to me that thick fingernails means lung disease, strange thing is, I noticed mine were a little!

Hello! My father went to see a pulmonologist and he is scheduled for a biopsy next Thursday. He had an X-Ray and CT scan with contrast done. The report said he has a 7 cm mass on his upper left lung. Is this always cancer or can it be something else? He …

Desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP) is almost exclusively seen in smokers or ex smokers. If stop smoking, prognosis is good. Hi everyone, I had a PFT on 9/10. The FEV1 was 70%. I don't use oxygen or inhalers, not short of breath + O2 sats 95-98. …

According to an article in Nat Geo 1981 - first Lung transplant 2478 done in 2017, the 2018 wait list ii 1518. But it gets worse, first heart 1968; 3273 in 2017,and a wait list of 4047. The next worse is kidney 20,639 in 2017 and a wait list of 96,670 …

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I do live alone now and because of previous dizziness, I do have an  alert through ADT. I wear it around my neck and it is connected to my phone line. I have only used it once, but I feel secure having it. I also have my home security throug ADT. I …