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My mom has Stage IV Lung Cancer
Dear readers, My mom is 63yo and she was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer about 8 months ago (brain, bones, and liver mets). She is a fighter and is doing everything she needs to do in order to feel better. She has chemo treatment every month, completed several radiotherapy sessions for the brain mets. I am her primary…
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My Mum
My Mum was diagnosed with stage 4 non small lung cancer last August. At one time the fluids had disappeared and the tumor had gotten a little smaller. She was on chemo, then maintenance chemo then a pill which made her break out badly. The doctor gave her a month break from the chemo pill. She had scans this week and the…
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I'm back...brain mets--again, 4th time !!
Well alot of stuff on this board.....alittle too much for my reponse although I am well aware of everyones troubles and you are in my prayers! I have brain mets for the 4 time..surgery is out as I as recovering from the 65 staples already done! Raido surgery is my best bet....although surgery and radial surgery were not…
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Teach me to cope
My husband was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in Jan 2011 with matastic to the bone brain and liver. I know God has blessed us with considerable time and I am truly blessed but I am not ready...he seems to be getting weaker but all along he does not talk about having cancer or how he feels. Every now and then he says…
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nonsmallcelllung cancer
anyone else KRAS positive with G12D mutation? If so, are you also adeno stage 4 and what treatment are you on?
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STRANGE OCCURRENCE
Hi everyone, hope all is well with you all, I decided to post a question which is what I think is a weird occurrence, and am curious to know if anyone of you here has had, or have heard of a similar situation. I have nsclc, been in remission for 3 yrs. and my overall health status thus far has been good. I'm due to have my…
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when adeno stage 4 lungs fluid around heart and lungs, is it usally malignant cardiad doc did not te
cardia doc did not send fluid from tamponade out for testing but just assumed it was malignant since I am stage 4...is that usually the case?
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Lung Cancer
I was diagnosed with lung cancer...non-small cell adenocarcinoma...in January 2012. It took from Thanksgiving until then for my doctors to come up with the diagnosis. My symptom was blockage of the esophagus. The GI people didn't react very quickly. I have a g-tube which was initialy used for feeding. One of my tumors was…
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Radiation
Does anyone know if you can receive radiation more than once. Someone told me you couldnt. Thanks.
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Please Tell Me What This Means!!!!
Hello. It's been a long time since I've written. My husband, Gary, had has stage 4 lung cancer and it's been two years now, Sadly, it has metastasized to his other lung, and new tumors in his kidney, and new spots on his ribs. Hospice is coming into our home now. He's usually only aswake 3 to 5 hours a dayu. He wont sit in…
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mutations
Could someone please help undestand mutations. Our onc tells this my wife is unmutated their are limited, if any, drugs that will help her Is this true? While I am a vet on cll lung cancer I,m a newbie. My wife is stage 4. Thanks and God Bless us all
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new to site
We are new to this site but not new to cancer I have cll for 6 years nad my wife, who I am writing was dx in March at the age of sixty with stage 4 lung cancer. While I have some knowledge of my disease I am starting to get famaliar with her disease. Needless to say both with cancer is hard to take. We are seeing dr reily…
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My dad's pet scan turned out good today!
I wanted to update on my dad. He was diagnosed in May' 11 with nsclc squamous cell in the right lower lobe at 13mm nodule.He had lymph node involvment which did not make him a candidate for surgery. He had carbo/taxol chemo with 39 radiation treatments to his mediastinum and his right lower lobe.This took about 6 months…
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TIME TO DO BATTLE AGAIN
Hello, I leaped over here from the Head and Neck boards as I think my cancer may have spread to my lungs. In short, October 20 was supposed to be my 2 year cancer free birthday, but a huge staph infection from last Sunday gave way to a CT scan of my head neck and chest. It was with this scan that 3 nodules were discovered…
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Anti-PD-1 clinical trial, first scan results
Hi everyone, I just got the results of my first set of 12-week scans after 4 treatments of MK-3475 (anti-PD-1 immunotherapy clinical trial drug). And the winner is....me! Almost seventy percent shrinkage in my tumors! No side effects-in fact, my hair is growing back. A thirty-minute infusion with no pre-meds! I just get up…
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new to this board mets to lungs
Hi, my name is Debbie. My husband Jim waas diagnosed May 2011 with stage 4 base of tongue with mets to 2 lymph nodes. January of this year pronounced lymph and tongue clear but nodule in upper right lobe. Waited 3 months for a CT and the result was numerous nodes in both lungs. He can't handle chemo, the csplatin almost…
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Alimta Question
So my dad has NSCLC type adenocarcinoma. He has had 5 rounds of chemo with Carboplatin and Alimta. I just read that "ALIMTA is a chemotherapy drug used to treat certain kinds of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) called advanced nonsquamous NSCLC." This is from the Alimta website (alimta.com). Now I am confused as to why…
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Tips/advice 4 chemo please :-)
Hi all, finally have full diagnosis. Mass in lower lobe of left lung cancerous, confirmed by thorasic biopsy. Told nodule in uterus had been confirmed as large agressive carcinoma tumour, review of my file and recent gyny history, plus the fact that they had confirmed lung cancer they (oncology, lung & gyny specialists,…
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Update - the gemzar is holding it at bay
Hi All, Just a note to let you all know my husband had a chest x-ray 8/7/12 and we were fully expecting to hear the small plueral effusion discovered on the CT scan had grown and would need attention - boy were we surprised to learn that it hasn't changed. So will continue the Gemzar which seems to be holding the continued…
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IV Lung
I have a friend whoever is battling stage 4 lung cancer. She e has been battlis 47 years old. She was recently told that she had a tumor in her upper abdomen. She has been battling this since October. When she was first diagnosed it was two small tumors. With chemo one has since one tumor is shinking the other is now scar…
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Mother diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and it's reoccurence
My mother was initially diagnosed with stage 4 cancer on October 2010. We first noticed a large lump under her jaw area, but being that she was recently hired her medical insurance had not yet been effective and had to postpone going to the doctor. After 5 months of aggressive chemotherapy and radiation she came out a…
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Problems after treatments..
Looking for advice for my father, age 69. He underwent treatment for stage 3A NSCLC (radiation and chemo), treatment ended one year ago. Thankfully, he is currently in remission. He is still struggling with the side effects from his treatment though. His right lung was severely damaged by the radiation. He has an…
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Maybe too early but mum is currently in hospital with lesions on brain and lung
Hey everyone, Hope you are all well. My situation is that my mother had been feeling unwell and terrible headaches for a week and we went to the hospital and they told her it was a tension headache and to sleep it off but things got even worse so we went up on Monday and she had a CT scan and they found 2 lesions on the…
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Looking for some positive words....
My Dad , a non- smoker who was diagnosed last summer with stage iv lung cancer with pleural effusion, he has had that drained several times..been through chemo...and now we flew him across the country to be a part of a trial at John Hopkins in Baltimore. He was doing great at first...tumor was even shrinking. Today only…
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Dad's Confusing Diagnosis
Hi everyone, Summary: Here for: My father (50 year old - smoker - occupation welder) Diagnosis: non small cell adenocarcinoma (1cm tumor in right upper lobe) with brain 2 mets Treatment: Brain: Gamma knife/WBR - brain tumors responding to treatment - shrinking Lung: ???? Need advice We have been dealing with this nightmare…
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Maintenance Therapy
So the back story is that my dad, 70 years old, was diagnosed with NSLC in April 2012. He just had his 5th round of chemo yesterday with Carboplatin and Alimta. His first CT scan in June showed the larger tumor shrunk from 3.1cm to 2.9cm and the other smaller tumors had no difference. We went in yesterday for a CT and…
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Lung cancer with mets to the brain 2x's this second time
I had a brain mets removed in January didn't have radiation because i was told some of my short term memory will be affected by the radiation permanently. well decided not to radiate. five months later a larger met was found. had it removed and did the radiation. now here i am bald again, and i do not like wigs too hot and…
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YES ME--Too Selfish
Not me--Too Selfish ---YES Me... Dapsterd is here and alive but not talk about me as I wish you ALL well ! and NOT to worry about my issues, thats part of the problem !!!!! Love ya Dave Scans in mid-august --we'll c !!!!!!!!!! Stage4 w/brain mets
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UPPER RIGHT LUNG LOBE REMOVAL
I have had my right lung uppper lobe removed VATS on 7/26/12 I have been home 3 days and am experiencing some nausea, indigestion and minimal pian. My breathing seems worse than when i left the hospital. I came home with the chest tube in. I also, just yesterday started getting a rash that itches in different places on my…
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Young wife recently passed away
My wife, 31 y/o, with Stage IV NSCLC adenocarcinoma ALK+ passed away recently. Crizotinib/Xalkori stopped working after 9 months. She was at home under hospice care after the docs stopped all treatments. She fought for 20 months and wanted to live so bad for our 3 kids, however it was just too much during the last couple…