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Lung Cancer

Archives for November 2014

LOOKING FOR A FORUM OR DISCUSSION ABOUT LUNG CANCER
Hello. I just signed into this site and hope I am posting this correctly. I was diagnosed in April with stage 4 non small cell lung cancer which had spread to both adrenal glands - no symptoms , Dr found anomolies in bloodwork during routine exam - which led to further checks and diagnosis. No surgery posible, no radiation…
Simpson hemp oil?
Please let me know if any of you have used simpson hemp oil. Thank you for your help. Good luck my friends.
Simpson hemp oil?
Please let me know if any of you have used simpson hemp oil. Thank you for your help. Good luck my friends.
Double Whammy!
Hey all... So my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 EC (mets to liver) in August, he started chemo and tumours are shrinking yay! However, in October my mam was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer (mets to brain) Double whammy! So the tumour from her brain was removed and radiation will be starting soon on brain, possibly on…
76 year old Mother diagnosed with small cell lung cancer
I need some advice. My mother starts the first of 4 rounds of chemo. She lives in Texas and I live in New York. I am struggling on when I should go see her. She was diagnosed earlier this year and we thought it was gone but now it has come back. The first Treatment was cyber knife In February. This time it is chemo and…
Nodule vs. pneumonia scar tissue?
Just rcvd CT scan results 3mm nodule. I know this is tiny, too small to biopsy. Was told to wait 6 months and CT scan again. MY QUESTIOS: 1) can horrible case of pneumonia leave any lung scar tissue that might look like a nodule? I had pneumonia 2007 that progressed from no symptoms to ER in < 48hrs., successfully treatted…
Alternative Treatments
What alternative cures WORKED or EVEN SEEMED to work for you?? In other words, if you scratched your nose and coincidentally get a little better, PLEASE post it.
Any stage 4 lung cancer kras mutation treatments out there or trials?
Family member went through chemos and radiation and none of it worked... Cisplatin/etoposide carboplatin/forgot the name Oncs sent us home with hospice...said there isnt much they can do.... not sure why they won't try another different chemo or a trial. Tumors kept growing and spreading. Looking for new treatment or a…
What to expect
Hi all, I'm new here on this subject so I hope you can forgive my seeming dumb. Let me start from the beginning. In late September I visited my doctor about sleep problems. Doctor had me get a CT scan since my last one was in 2012 where a small nodule was found lower right lobe. Biopsy came back as benign then. This CT…
Is my dad dying????
Dad had a heart attract sept. 19, that's when they found the mass on his left upper lung and removed it 4 weeks later, after they removed it they said it was soft ball size with 1 of 7 lymph nodes involved, what are we really looking at??? My dad and I are extremely close, but for whatever reason he won give me( a nurse )…
Stage 4 Adeno NSCLC question, EGFT/ALK negative
Have any patients had difficulty getting their oncologist to respond to them with treatment options in a somewhat timely way? We are at a major cancer center and have been waiting 2 weeks now after being given the results of the most recent scan, which showed progression after 7 months of first line chemo. THe progression…
Big Secret
It's Lung Cancer awareness month..... No race for the cure, No wear Pearl it's a shame

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