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Lung Cancer
Archives for February 2015
Discussion List
stage 4 / copd and plueral effusion
My husband was diagnosed with stage 4 NSCLC Andeo. He also has a plueral effusion and COPD. His worse symptom is he cannot walk 10 feet with out being out of breath, so spends all his time in recliner. He has had 3 rounds of chemo and after CAT SCAN there has been no change. . We drain his plueral effusion every 3 days and…
New Here and Was Just Wondering.......
Hello Everyone, I have been diagnosed twice with stage 1a adenocarcinoma with an ALK mutation. I have had two lung surgeries, June 2006 & March 2014, and now my scans are showing 3 small nodules. Has anyone else gone through this and what was the outcome?
Esophageal adenocarcinoma now in lining of lungs...
my dad was diagnosed last January with stage 3 esophageal adinocarcinoma. Started chemo and then radiation...could not eat anything so they put in a peg tube. (Went to the ER twice with problems with this and they sent him home saying nothing was wrong). (They said the cause of his initial cancer was Barrett's esophageous…
Private Message Spam
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Mom is Stage 4 and out of options...Caregiver advice?
After fighting off months of pnemonia and it coming back, my Mom was diagnosed in April 2014 with Stage 4 NSCLC with a softball sized tumor in her right lung and a golfball sized tumor in her left and mets in the shoulder and spine. Surgery and radiation were not options. The oncologist recommended chemo. The first cycle…
Uterine Sarcoma may have spread to my lungs. Scared about biopsies surgery on my lung :(
I had a Pet Scan. It was all clear except for a small spot on my upper left lung and another even smaller spot on my right lung. My oncolgest sent me to a thoracic surgeon to get a needle biopsies but the surgion said my ribs are very tight and the only way to get to the spot on my left lung is by doing a thoracoscopy with…
Love to hear more survival stories.. New here, anyone alk+?
Hi everyone. I am new here. I was diagnosed 12/23. Wow, it is already one month! I went from ultra sad of why me to currently an optimistic outlook. A roller coaster one month. I have alk+ stage 4 lung cancer, it spread to my bone. I am 41, never smoked, Asian, female. :) Ha..ha. Statistics are funny~~ Keeping an upbeat…
surgery.....
Hi, I am new to this forum although have been posting regularly on the anal cancer site for almost 4 years. 4 years ago I was diagnosed with stage 3b anal cancer and received treatment of surgery (ostomy) chemo and radiation. At my 1 year PET scan I was diagnosed with a rare breast cancer and had a double mastectomy. All…