We are speculating that the nodule is malignant and it's secondary cancer with the same composition as the primary, but it can very well be a new cancer with a totally different composition. So we have three routes in my non-medfag opinion:
1. It's benign. Baaaaae! Stop at the first Cheesecake Factory, we are celebrating!
2. It's malignant, secondary cancer, distant recurrence:
- Focused radiation therapy may be used when the cancer is only in a few small spots.
- More extensive recurrences (widespread cancer) are treated like those with stage IV endometrial cancer.
- First-line chemo regimen: Carboplatin and Paclitaxel
3. It's malignant, new cancer.
- Let's speculate that it's lung cancer
- It can be either small cell lung cancer (SCLC) or non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). SCLC is almost always associated with smoking so we are focusing on NSCLC which can be:
- adenocarcinoma
- squamous cell carcinoma
- large cell carcinoma
- The chemo drugs used for NSCLC are: Cisplatin, Carboplatin, Paclitaxel, Albumin-bound paclitaxel, Docetaxel, Gemcitabine, Vinorelbine, Etoposide, Pemetrexed.
I want to focus a bit on the Cisplatin and Paclitaxel. These two can really, really fuck you up, and specially
Cisplatin. It's not 100% guaranteed, some people tolerate it fairly well with few and/or less intense side effects, but I think it will destroy Amber. I'm not kidding, I hope her cockroach luck saves her from this.