Lung Cancer
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Adenocarcinoma lung cancer
My mother in law is 54 years old and was diagnosied in Jan 2007 with lung cancer. she was told back in 2004-2005 that she had a spot on her lung but she never went back to have it checked so in 2007 she went to the doc with a bad cough and they discovered that she had stage 3b Adenocarcinoma lung cancer. the tumor on her…
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"terminally ill"
hi guys.. I just have a question for the survivors: have any of you been given a "terminal" diagnosis? This is such a scary word and it's incredibly hard to digest. I'd like to hear from some people who've showed their doctors that you can still look forward to years with loved ones despite being "terminal". I'm still…
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just diagnosed stage 2/maybe 3 lung cancer.
Hi all, I was just diagnosed with stage 2 border line stge 3 lung cancer. It seems so far I am very lucky that they have caught it so soon and I am very thankful. I am just putting out some feelers so far to see what to expect from the chemo. I do not have my first treatment scheduled yet, but it will probably be within…
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Loss of appetite after radiation
My father was diagnosed with NSCLC 3b in January. He got 6 rounds of chemo and after that 33 fractions of radiation. Now, it is more than 1 month since radiation finished but he still has loss of appetite. He does not want to eat some special food at all, especially. Do you think this is because of radiation or his…
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navelbine and bowel shut down
Has anyone here taken navelbine or had a loved one who did and had a bowel shut down? We are caregivers for a relative who had his first navelbine on August 27th, had mouth sores and throat sores by August 29th-31, stopped moving his bowels by the 30th, and was hospitalized when he started vomiting blood on Sept 2nd. The…
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Limited Small Cell Lung Cancer...
I am so desperate for help understanding this whole thing. My mother was diagnosed with this type of cancer 5 days ago via an X-ray. She is extremely active and will be released from the hospital tomorrow. She orignally went in because her blood was too thick as her doc didn't have her on the right blood thinner and now we…
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Survivors of SCLC
OK - I feel great! I was diagnosed May of '06 (45 y/o,) with limited SCLC, treated with chemo/radiation and brain radiation for prevention of coming back there - my doc said there wasn't much up there to begin with but thought it best to do it:). Only complaints - weight gain and constipation. Now, I read on article in…