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CyberKnife
Hi Has anyone done CyberKnife Treatment ? is this one time thing? is this effective ? how about pain ? Thanks a bunch Tao
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stage 3a or b. squamous cell carcinoma
My girlfriend 43 y.o. Just diagnosed with lung cancer. squamous cell carcinoma stage 3a or b. She just started radiation yesterday and will start etopiside and cisplatin next week. She was told that she was not operable. Has anyone else been on this regimen. We are both very optomistic and have not given up on surgury if…
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CT Scan and Nodules
I am usually on the colorectal board because my husband had crc in Oct. 03. Today he is cancer free, thank GOD. I hope it is okay to come over here because I have a few questions I hope some of you can help me with. I had a CT Scan Monday to check for some problems with my left rib cage caused by an accident in Dec. 06. I…
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Radio frequency ablation
I am new to this site. My father in law was recently diagnosed with nsclc and prostate ca. Upon doing the ct to check for mets after the prostate dx, they found the lung mass. After several trips to a thoracic surgeon and 3 biopsy's we finally have a dx. (Prostate ca was found 12/27/07, lung dx finally on 3/14/08.) He is…
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Tarceva help
I'm 41 and have be diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer stage 4 after 4 chemo treatments i have been put on Tarceva 125mg daily. My question is has anyone been on this drug and had side effects of extreme fatuge. I had the rash and went on anti-bodics, but my fatigue is really bad I want to sleep all the time. Has…
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Zometa anyone ever used?
My boyfriend has stage 4 lung with bone met.His last scans showed the cancer was stable.She is giving him a break from chemo but is starting him on zometa. Has anyone ever used it and did it help with the bone pain.I would really value your experience
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Navelbine - if you had this drug - what do you think?
Hi, my dad was on a recent chemo break from Gemzar. He has cancer in the mediatrinum area in lymph nodes. The last dose of Gemzar was in December 07. This past Monday he had a PET scan because a rash on his chest was recently diagnosed as lung mets to skin. Almost simultaneously he felt an enlarged lyph node in the neck.…
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Tarceva help
My father was diagnosed in Jan 2007 with NSCLC 3b. Now, new lesions appeared in liver and he will start chemo again. We live in Turkey and I want to find tarceva, but here it is not available. Can anybody help or inform me about how I can obtain it? I will really appreciate if anybody can help me.
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Thoracic surgrey with lung cancer?
I am trying to find someone who had the same surgery as i did. I was diagnosed in April 2007 with lung cancer. They found a tumor in the back chest wall 11 cm it was so big they said it was innoperable. I began chemo and radiation so that the tumor would shrink and releive the pain. Apparently the tumor was pressing on my…
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lung mets to skin?
Has anyone out there had their lung cancer metastisize to their skin. About six months ago while my dad was on chemo he developed a rash on his side. They thought it was a chemo rash. He was getting very sick on the chemo, so decided to stop for a while. The rash seemed to grow, so he went to a skin doctor recently who…
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Stage4 Lung bone met what is next?
My boyfriend was diagnosed with lung cancer with met to many bones in Aug. He had positive pleural effusion.They could not operate or treat with radiation as the cancer was to spread out.He did have pallative 10 treatments of radiation to neck as tumors were sitting on spine causing a lot of pain. He finished his last…
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Stage IV NSCLC w/mets to brain
My dad woke one morning in the middle of Jan. 2008, thinking he had suffered a stroke. The newspaper wasn't making any sense, and he had such a disconnect with his memory. After a trip to his GP and a chest x-ray later, he was diagnosed with lung cancer w/mats to his brain. One tumor in his lung, and 4 marble to pingpong…