Donating if really early cancer is real and is removed

[KarenHope]

I MIGHT have very, very, very early onset of cancer in my upper lung. Therefore, the team who decides if I can donate decides I cannot until we find out for sure if I do have early onset. Does anyone know if I do and they take it out if then the team will find me donar-able? I am quite healthy in every other way.

[DSKdonor NKF Ambassador]

There is always that possibility, but it's different for each person. Doctors to decide in your particular case only if it's still possible to donate. Remember, one doesn't want to potentially give cancer to the recipient along with a kidney!

Best of luck to you for you first!

[KarenHope in reply to DSKdonor]

Thank you. I don't know about cancer cells spreading...? I mean, I don't know. This particular boogieman is so, so small. Barely any "uptake" when I was injected with a radioactive material. If it is cancer then the desire and pre-tests revealed it. My understanding is that lung cancer isn't usually detected until it is quite advanced. So in giving I am receiving in an unexpected way...perhaps, with my own extended life. Anyway, they won't take the kidney if it's cancer no matter how early caught and small; they won't take my liver for years to make sure there is no reoccurrence. They are concerned with my health; I might need the kidney if I need treatment down the road. The Hippocratic Oath, G bless them. Wish us some luck, with being in the time and place where I'm healthy and that haze around a little scar (from breathing in fire by accident, jeesh, 50 years ago) is some reasonable haze in which we move on to giving this kidney.

[DSKdonor NKF Ambassador in reply to KarenHope]

then you caught something so very early for you by trying to do something wonderful for someone else....!!