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Picture of My Best Friend
I have been trying to upload this pic for months!!! Anyway, just wanted to share. This is my mother. For those who do not know, whe was dx March 1st. SCLC w/mets to brain...then Mets to Spine, then remission in July, back in brain Aug 6th - Was by her side @ home under hospice care for 7 weeks, she passed peacefully on…
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Lobectomy Tomorrow - Need Info
Hello Everyone: Tomorrow my husband will have a lobectomy right lower lobe right lung for nsclc. He has emphysema and still smokes. So we are unsure if there will be complications. He has put this surgery off for 5 months and today he will get a new CAT scan. Hopefully he is still a surgery candidate. Can anyone tell me…
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Cannot eat raw fruits or vegetables?
Hi everyone. Gary's oncologist told us he can not eat raw vegetables or raw fruit? I've looked this up on google and can't find anywhere that cancer patients shouldn't eat those things. Does anyone have any insight on this? Thank you so much. Donna
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After 16 years battling cancer on and off she lost battle!
Last Tuesday morning my mom died at the age of 75. Her fight starts back 16 years ago with the stage 3 uterine cancer.She had a complete hysterectomy. She then had chemo. She did great.Then 9 years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had lump removed from left breast. She had radiation. Did great. Then 5 years…
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Small Spot on Spine
I have been having some lower back pain for several months and finally had a CT last month. The CT shows that I have a 4mm Spot on my L2 vertebrae. My onc thinks it might be a bone island, but sent me for a bone scan. The bone scan did not light up for mets, however they say that anything that small will not light up…
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Scan Results
The wait was killing me and then I get to the Dr. and they forget me. I literally had to wait 45 minutes before one of the techs came out and said OMG I forgot you. Anyway, the news is OK not great as in no cancer detected but OK as in the tumor has shruken consierably from 20 X 11 cm to 6 X 3cm. What we don't know is if…
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21 Year Old NSMLC Adenocarcinoma Stage 4
Hi All, I need any info and help you can offer ... we just found out last week that my 21 year old son has Adenocarcinoma NSMLC Stage 4. There's a mass in his lower left lung and mets to his lymph nodes and heart. There's fluid in his heart and upon testing the fluid it contains cancer cells. He's starting chemo this Thur.…
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Caring for a friend
I have recently been introduced to a woman who had stage IV lung cancer 10 years ago. she is a business woman and had let her life go, in a sense. We are united through the spiritual program of AA, and I have been called upon to assist her. She has been living under a cloud yet remain a capable woman who has lost her…
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Stent
Does anyone know if a stent in the esophagus can slip once the chemo is taking affect. My husband is having trouble once again swallowing
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My Mom's battle with cancer is over
I'm so heartbroken, my best friend, my mother is no longer here. She died yesterday afternoon with her two daughters on either side of her. She faught so hard and did everything the doctors said. She never complained even through some terrible side effects.. She always looked ahead. Things changed so quickly. We were there…
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Life after treatment-help for a caregiver.
My mom was diagnosed with lung cancer in Feb. She has done pretty well through chemo and radiation to her lungs and her brain. After her last round of radiation, I thought she would start feeling better and things would go back to a somewhat normal. However, about a month after her radiation she started getting really bad…
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My Dad's Diagnosis/Lung to brain 14 spots/1 tumor on brain
On Friday my dad was diagnosed with lung to brain cancer (many spots one larger tumor). No biopsy yet, that's Monday. The oncologist came in and asked a bunch of questions, looked him over a bit and said "two weeks without treatment." He'd been falling progressively for a few weeks (loss of balance) and had been treated…
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husband's treatment
my husband was diagnosed with ext sclc august 2010. Right lung partially collapsed with 2 masses in 2 lobes. Also plueral effusion around the lung and two small leasions on vertebrae that have not yet penetrated the bone.Scans/mris of his brain, stomach and pelvic area and spinal column all were negative for mets in those…
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I need urgent help
HI I am very new to this and very scared... I am 29 years old and I have a lung cancer stage 3B. It seems i am in a critical condition. if I am expected to live couple of years ... how does it work. How long will i be asked to do treatments and what will my life be like. should I give up chemo so I can have a quality life…
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My mom has possible stage IV lung cancer
We found out in July that my mom has lung cancer, she is 58 years old. The doctors have been talking surgery pretty much from the beginning. She has a tumor on the brain, the radiation and chemo have made the tumor disappear. She recently found out the doctors are calling it stage IV, everything I have found on the…
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possible lung cancer
Hi, I have been on this site in the past as I was going through breast cancer, mastectomy and chemo-12/06-06/07. I have been off chemo since 07 and have had no reoccurance of breast cancer. I did have pre-cancer cells found in my thyroid and had surgery in 2008 with no chemo needed. In October of this year, along with my…
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Clinical Trials - Does anyone know of any ACTIVE non small cell lung cancer clinical trials?
Clinical Trials - Does anyone know of any ACTIVE non small cell lung cancer clinical trials? Thank you, Lizzy
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Refusing ALL treatment
any one out there also refusing chemo or everything else? adeno stage 4
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no chemo after surgery ?
hello. my mother was sent home from hospatial yestaday after she had two parts of her lung removed the upper and the bottom part of the left lung. she was in hospatial for three weeks, after many compilcations she got through it. i have to say when i ask the doctors questions they are very vauge. they tell me it was stage…
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Temodar for multiple brain mets
My husband was dx with sclc 2 years ago and in March this year with non-sclc as well. He has had IV chemo 2 seperate times, radiation on his torso,neck & brain. He had gamma-knife done 3 times. Now they have him on Temodar alone and yesterday he finished his second dosing in a 5 on 21 day off schedule. We saw the doc on…
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Hepatic Embolization of the liver
My 35 yr old Fiance was diagnosed with Stage IV Parotid Gland cancer (a salvitory cancer) in August 2010. It has spread to his spine (6 tumors- C5, C6, C7, T1, T3, T10) and to his liver (10.6cm tumor). After a surgery to remove the primary tumor, radiation and two rounds of chemo (taxol and carbo-platin)they have pulled…
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Scanziety
Tomorrow I go for my first CT Scan since I finished chemo and radiation, needless to say I'm anxious about what the results will be. The Drs seem to think the treatment was successful but I won't believe anything until they tell me what the scan results are. I know everyone here goes through this at one point or another so…
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Looking for other SCLC survivors (short to long term)
Just finished five cycles of chemo for SCLC. Had to cancel last cyle due to weakened immune system. What is life like after treatment?
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Hair growth
How long after chemo is finished does it take for the hair to start growing? It is almost 4 weeks since I finished chemo and don't see much growth of any hair. Is there something that is good to use on the head for hair growth? Thank you very much. Cindy
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thank you for your welcome
hello, my name is shaun. i live in barcelona spain. my mother who is 73 was diogonised on august the 26 2010 with lung cancer.this has broken my heart i did not know what to do or say. but my mother is a very postive person always smile. 3 weeke ago my mother had her right lung removed, but the same evening she had to have…
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New Traditions
Hey all, I should probably post this elsewhere and may but..... Most know my story, lost my mom to SCLC 9/23, just dx 3/1. Lost my mother in law to EC 10/24, dx late June. Holidays are coming. My family ALWAYS got together at mom's, husbands family never had anything....Plus the fact mom's bday is Nov 27th. I have 2…
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Stage 4 NSCLC Chest always heavy
I had a lobectomy of the lower left lobe in September 2007 after being diagnosed with nsclc, stage 1a in July of that year. The heaviness in my chest since the surgery never went away and now it is even worse. I had almost 2 yrs. of clean scans and then in October 2008, I was diagnosed with stage 4 nsclc. I have been on…
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loss of balance
Hi , My mom has nsclc and also had a tumor removed from her brain . All her pet scans and brain mri show progress no new tumors and shrinking of the tumors in the lungs . The problem is she seems to be more and more unsteady by the day and her legs and feet are swollen.Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jean
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carboplatin, avastin and paclitaxel...anyone had these chemo drugs i am newly on?
Hi all, I started chemo two days ago. Above are the drugs they are giving me for my lung cancer. My doctor said I should do well on them. So far so good. I'm just looking for some input from people who have had these drugs. Any info you could give me would we great. God bless all of you, Scott
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stayingcalm where are you
I have been trying to contact you cant find email or messaging are you OK