It's not Cancer!

Here’s what I’ve been told.

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Two years ago, I had a severe case of pneumonia. The pneumonia was treated, but a damaged area remained in the lower part of my right lung. At that time, a benign nodule was also found in the same area of the damaged lung.

 

Almost two years later, I had another strong pneumonia, this past June, which sent me to the hospital for an entire day. I was treated for pneumonia and released to go home. That episode left my lung even more damaged and weakened.

 

The doctors believe that around that time, I might have inhaled a type of fungus (like pollen) through my nose, which entered my bloodstream and reached my lung, attacking the area already weakened by the two pneumonias. From June until September—when I started coughing and spitting up blood—the fungus had begun to act in my lung.

 

This fungus attacks the lung in a way similar to a malignant tumor (cancer): it grows quickly, has a similar shape, and can spread to other organs in the body, just like cancer. In such cases, the only way to confirm what it really is is through a biopsy.