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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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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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memory loss after cancer
I will be in remission 5 years in august 29. but i am having trouble remembering simple words.i can remember things a long time ago .please tell me if anybody else is having this problem.i can't have a simple conversation because i forget a simple word that i know i know what it is but i feel stupid.
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Dad Passed away now i might be in trouble.. advice?
Hey everyone, sorry it's been so long. Life has been extremely hectic the past year. I came on here last year worried about 2 nodules in my left lung found on ct scan. I was suppose to go back and have them rescanned to make sure they were not growing. Well, not long after I lost my health insurance and had no idea what to…
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showing no signs of deteriation
My 88 year old dad who has smoked all his life was diagnosed in March 2012 with inoperable lung cancer. His doctor told him he had 3 to 4 months to live. He did not get any treatment nor his he on any medication for the cancer. This is almost 6 months later and he has had no discomfort or any sign of feeling ill. Has…
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Starve cancer cells
The cancer cells affinity for glucose is well known "The warburg effect". Every one says normal cells need glucose. My question is why cant we substiture with pyruvate?. Normal cells can use pyruvate in the Kreb/Citric acid cycle while cancer cells have deficient mitochondria and just convert pyruvate to lactic acid. So…
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Help
My name is Julie and I am on the Thyroid Cancer boards. I am a three year survivor of Thyroid Cancer with double metastasis to the Lymph nodes. Oh, and who can forget my second primary cancer of Melanoma, which my Grandmother died from. Everyone in my family has had cancer which is why I am very active with ACS here in my…
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He rejects ALL suggestions that will make his life easier
My husband has terminal lung cancer. He is exhausted, and has huge anxieties about urgently needing to get to pee, and has really bad "depression". We don't think it is depression. We think it is very weird wiring in his head related to OCD. Anyway, for all the things he sees as problems, or that make him depressed and…
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father got adenocarcinoma T4N0M1
Hello all, I have very sad news to share and I just wanted to share this with all. My father (who is a doctor at 60+) has been diagnosed with adenocarcinoma and after PET scan they put it at T4N0M1. Then after lumbar-puncture they have found cancer cells in the CSF fluid. Cancer cells were found in femur, spine, brain and…
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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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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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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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Anyone had bad effects from Avastin??
Just wondering if anyone has had a bad experience with this drug? My husband had "very rare" side effects and hemmorraged to death after his second treatment? This happened in March of 2010, and I'm sure there must have been someone who also had a bad side effect. I know it can't help me, but was just curious to know.…
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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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Secondary lung cancer
Hi everyone, I usually post on colon forum and I was hoping to get some info as to my left shoulder collarbone and lymph node swelling. I have stage 4 colon cancer with lung and liver mets. For the past 4 weeks I have been experiencing chronic left collarbone pain which is now swollen at the end and I have swollen lymph…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pleura of Lung?
I was curious is anyone out there has cancer that has affected the pleura of the lung? It seems like all the stories I see about lung cancer have to do with tumors in the lung. My lungs appear clear with the cancer starting in the pleura of my right lung. Just wondering if there was anyone out there with a similar…
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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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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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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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Radiation
Does anyone know if you can receive radiation more than once. Someone told me you couldnt. Thanks.
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Taxotere.....Has anyone used this drug?/ Son getting married
54 yr old male, Diagnosed on the 12th of April 2012 with Stage 4 NSCLC WITH BONE METZ TO T-6 verterbre. Had radiation 20 treatments, then started chemo, only had 1 of 6 rounds of chemo (1 round = 21day cycle, 1st day Gemzar & carbo, 8th day Gemzar) on the 16th day of the first cycle found a 10cm tumor wrapped around my…
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Glenna M. has passed
Just thought I would let everyone here know that Glenna M. passed away last night. She was one of the first on here to welcome me and encourage me throughout my dads short battle with cancer.
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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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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…