{"id":18085,"date":"2023-10-31T20:20:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/lung-story\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T20:20:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:20:37","slug":"lung-story","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/news\/lung-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Un cribado de c\u00e1ncer de pulm\u00f3n salv\u00f3 la vida de Donna Valois"},"content":{"rendered":"

Como ex fumadora empedernida que hab\u00eda dejado de fumar una docena de a\u00f1os antes, Donna era una buena candidata para el cribado, que puede detectar el c\u00e1ncer precozmente y dar a los m\u00e9dicos la mejor oportunidad de tratarlo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sin embargo, Donna se sent\u00eda bien y, cuando lleg\u00f3 la pandemia de COVID-19, conseguir atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica se hizo m\u00e1s complicado. Finalmente program\u00f3 la prueba en marzo de 2021. Se acercaba su revisi\u00f3n anual y \"no quer\u00eda que el Dr. Barreto se enfadara conmigo\", dice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los resultados llegaron al d\u00eda siguiente y fueron impactantes. Donna ten\u00eda un tumor del tama\u00f1o de una naranja en el pulm\u00f3n izquierdo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ni en mis mejores sue\u00f1os pens\u00e9 que me pasaba algo\", dijo. \"No ten\u00eda ning\u00fan s\u00edntoma\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fue derivada al cirujano tor\u00e1cico de Southcoast Dra. Tammy Gleeson<\/a> Luke's Hospital a finales de abril. El Dr. Gleeson extirp\u00f3 aproximadamente la mitad del pulm\u00f3n de Donna para extirpar el tumor y algunos n\u00f3dulos cancerosos adicionales que encontr\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"La Dra. Gleeson me dijo que si hubiera esperado seis meses m\u00e1s, me habr\u00eda dicho cu\u00e1nto me quedaba de vida\", cuenta Donna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donna pas\u00f3 una semana en el hospital, con el Dr. Gleeson control\u00e1ndola todos los d\u00edas. Las atentas enfermeras hicieron que su estancia fuera lo m\u00e1s c\u00f3moda posible, a pesar de que los protocolos de COVID-19 restring\u00edan seriamente las visitas de la hermana, la hija y el prometido de Donna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dra. Sophia Rizk<\/a>La Dra. Rizk, onc\u00f3loga de Southcoast Health en Fall River, la ciudad natal de Donna, tambi\u00e9n visitaba con frecuencia el hospital, incluso cuando no estaba de guardia. Y despu\u00e9s de que Donna se recuperara durante un mes, la Dra. Rizk supervis\u00f3 su quimioterapia, que se administr\u00f3 en el Southcoast Health Fall River Center for Cancer Care. All\u00ed, Donna encontr\u00f3 \"a las enfermeras m\u00e1s amables y mejores que nunca\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"La Dra. Rizk fue maravillosa conmigo y muy atenta\", dijo Donna. \"Me explic\u00f3 todo lo que me pasaba de una manera que un paciente pudiera entender. Y siempre estaba disponible\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aun as\u00ed, las tres rondas de quimioterapia supusieron un reto que la envi\u00f3 al hospital en dos ocasiones, una con fiebre y otra con una infecci\u00f3n sangu\u00ednea. Lleg\u00f3 un momento en que pens\u00f3 en rendirse, pero sus amigos y su familia, especialmente Allyson, su hija de entonces 21 a\u00f1os, le rogaron que siguiera adelante.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mi hija me dijo: 'Mam\u00e1, necesito que hagas esto'\", dijo Donna. \"Har\u00eda cualquier cosa por ella\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahora, a los 67 a\u00f1os, Donna dice estar encantada de vivir. A\u00fan est\u00e1 recuperando fuerzas y recibe tratamiento para el enfisema, pero esta \"luchadora\" insiste en hacer las tareas dom\u00e9sticas y pasea con su hermana por el paseo mar\u00edtimo de Fall River. En dos a\u00f1os ha ampliado a tres kil\u00f3metros la distancia que puede caminar, aunque peri\u00f3dicamente tenga que parar para recuperar el aliento.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reanuda su trabajo como probadora de software y se entrega a sus muchos amores: la playa, la cocina, los cruceros, los viajes, el teatro y los conciertos. Hace manualidades con su hermana y su hija, visita Florida varias veces al a\u00f1o y est\u00e1 deseando asistir a la boda de Allyson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donna dice que el Dr. Barreto le salv\u00f3 la vida al instarla a someterse a pruebas de detecci\u00f3n, y ahora extiende ese consejo a amigos y familiares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"La detecci\u00f3n precoz lo es todo\", afirma. \"Si me hubiera sometido antes a un cribado, el tumor podr\u00eda haber sido m\u00e1s peque\u00f1o. Ahora hago todo lo que me dice mi m\u00e9dico, y me alegra contar mi historia si sirve para salvar a una persona. Me siento absolutamente maravillosa\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Para obtener m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n sobre las pruebas de detecci\u00f3n del c\u00e1ncer de pulm\u00f3n en Southcoast Health y nuestro equipo de cirug\u00eda tor\u00e1cica, visite Tratamiento del c\u00e1ncer de pulm\u00f3n MA & RI | Southcoast Health<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4564,"template":"","categories":[1231],"class_list":["post-18085","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nA Lung Cancer Screening Saved Donna Valois\u2019 Life - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Donna Valois didn\u2019t hurry when her primary care physician, Southcoast Health\u2019s Dr. Felicia Barreto, urged her to be screened for lung cancer in 2019.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/lung-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Lung Cancer Screening Saved Donna Valois\u2019 Life - 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