{"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\/pt\/news\/lung-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Um rastreio do cancro do pulm\u00e3o salvou a vida de Donna Valois"},"content":{"rendered":"

Como ex-fumadora de longa data que tinha deixado de fumar h\u00e1 uma d\u00fazia de anos, Donna era uma boa candidata ao rastreio, que pode detetar o cancro precocemente e dar aos m\u00e9dicos a melhor hip\u00f3tese de o tratar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No entanto, Donna sentia-se bem e, quando a pandemia de COVID-19 chegou, a obten\u00e7\u00e3o de cuidados tornou-se mais complicada. Acabou por marcar o teste em mar\u00e7o de 2021. O seu check-up anual estava a chegar e \"n\u00e3o queria que o Dr. Barreto ficasse chateado comigo\", disse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Os resultados chegaram no dia seguinte e eram chocantes. Donna tinha um tumor do tamanho de uma laranja no pulm\u00e3o esquerdo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nem nos meus sonhos mais loucos pensei que tinha algo de errado comigo\", disse ela. \"N\u00e3o tinha sintomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foi encaminhada para o cirurgi\u00e3o tor\u00e1cico de Southcoast Dra. Tammy Gleeson<\/a> e foi operada no St. Luke's Hospital no final de abril. O Dr. Gleeson retirou cerca de metade do pulm\u00e3o de Donna para extirpar o tumor e alguns n\u00f3dulos cancer\u00edgenos adicionais que encontrou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A Dra. Gleeson disse-me que se eu tivesse esperado mais seis meses, ela estaria a dizer-me quanto tempo tinha de vida\", disse Donna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donna passou uma semana no hospital, com o Dr. Gleeson a control\u00e1-la todos os dias. As enfermeiras atenciosas tornaram a sua estadia o mais confort\u00e1vel poss\u00edvel, apesar de os protocolos da COVID-19 restringirem severamente as visitas da irm\u00e3, da filha e do noivo de Donna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dra. Sophia Rizk<\/a>A Dra. Rizk, uma m\u00e9dica oncologista que trabalha no Southcoast em Fall River, a cidade natal de Donna, tamb\u00e9m fazia visitas frequentes ao hospital, mesmo quando n\u00e3o estava de servi\u00e7o. E depois de Donna ter recuperado durante um m\u00eas, o Dr. Rizk supervisionou a sua quimioterapia, que foi administrada no Southcoast Health Fall River Center for Cancer Care. L\u00e1, Donna encontrou \"as melhores e mais gentis enfermeiras de todos os tempos\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A Dra. Rizk foi maravilhosa comigo e muito atenciosa\", disse Donna. \"Explicou-me tudo o que se passava comigo de uma forma que um doente pudesse compreender. E estava sempre dispon\u00edvel.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mesmo assim, as tr\u00eas sess\u00f5es de quimioterapia foram um desafio que a levou ao hospital duas vezes, uma com febre e outra com uma infe\u00e7\u00e3o no sangue. A certa altura, pensou em desistir, mas os amigos e a fam\u00edlia, especialmente Allyson, a sua filha de 21 anos na altura, imploraram-lhe que se mantivesse firme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A minha filha disse: 'M\u00e3e, preciso que fa\u00e7as isto'\", disse Donna. \"Eu faria qualquer coisa por ela.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agora, aos 67 anos, Donna diz que est\u00e1 feliz por estar viva. Ainda est\u00e1 a recuperar as for\u00e7as e est\u00e1 a ser tratada para um enfisema, mas a auto-descrita \"lutadora\" insiste em fazer as suas pr\u00f3prias tarefas dom\u00e9sticas e caminha regularmente com a irm\u00e3 pela orla mar\u00edtima de Fall River. Ao longo de dois anos, aumentou a dist\u00e2ncia que consegue percorrer em duas milhas, mesmo que tenha de parar periodicamente para recuperar o f\u00f4lego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retomou o seu trabalho como testadora de software e entrega-se aos seus muitos amores - a praia, a cozinha, os cruzeiros, as viagens, o teatro e os concertos. Faz trabalhos manuais com a irm\u00e3 e a filha, visita a Fl\u00f3rida algumas vezes por ano e est\u00e1 ansiosa por assistir ao casamento da Allyson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donna diz que o Dr. Barreto lhe salvou a vida ao incit\u00e1-la a fazer o rastreio e agora estende esse conselho a amigos e familiares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A dete\u00e7\u00e3o precoce \u00e9 tudo\", disse ela \"Se eu tivesse feito um rastreio mais cedo, o tumor poderia ser mais pequeno. Agora fa\u00e7o tudo o que o meu m\u00e9dico me diz e fico feliz por contar a minha hist\u00f3ria se ela salvar uma pessoa. Sinto-me absolutamente maravilhosa\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Para saber mais sobre o rastreio do cancro do pulm\u00e3o na Southcoast Health e na nossa equipa de cirurgia tor\u00e1cica, visite Tratamento do cancro do pulm\u00e3o 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=\"pt_PT\" \/>\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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