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Lung Cancer

lung cancer
My mother was recently diagnosed with Lung cancer. It has spread to her liver and adrenal glands. She has opted to try chemotherapy as the doctors said it may buy her some more time. The prognosis is not good - they have given her a few months to live. We're wondering if its worthwhile to go through the discomfort of…
Questions about Lung cancer process
So my dad had a CT scan 2 months ago showing a small tumor on his lung.He a PET scan a few weeks ago and a biopsy yesterday. And then today they did a chest x-ray. Is this normal procedure? We havent heard anything back from the biopsy.
LOST MOM TO LUNG CANCER STAGE 4 :(
I miss my mom so much she was everything to me. know thats shes gone i have no one, i come home to myself. not to mention i lost her at a very young age, at the time i was 17 and i had to learn how to live on my own and pay the bills. its been a year know and i cant help but feel that my best in helping her was never…
Small Cell Lung Cancer
My Mom was just diagnosed yesterday. She hasn't gone through staging yet to see if it has spread. They found it two weeks ago as a 4 cm in diameter mass. I don't know how big it is now because I don't know just HOW rapid SCLC grows... I am terrified. I love my Mom so much and it takes everything in me not to cry…
History of mama
My mama was diagnosed 10 yrs ago with stage 4 non-small cell metatastic lung cancer and was given a 2% chance of survival. Within The 10 yrs the cancer has spread to ribs spine hips bones and sacrum. She received radiation 5 yrs ago on the sacrum and has been taking chemotherapy pills since diagnosised. Recently she was…
chemo brain after treatment
i would like to talk to other people who have chemobrain or memory loss after treatment '
memory problems in remission
I am having problems with memory while in remission. i can remember things from years ago but forget simple words that i know that i know it but cannot remember it.If anyone has had a problem like this please share. will it get better or worse.it is so embarassing please help me if you can.
‎"There's a rainbow of babies/Draped over the graveyard"
(John Prine reference) My dear friend Glenna: You would be pleased to know that I spent the weekend involved with the grandboys, their parents, and their friends in a birthday party. It was a car racing theme, per the young man turning four, and there was lots of water play involved, as you might imagine, along with all of…
new member with questions regarding treatment
Hi - my husband was diagnosed 5/18/12 with Stage 3 NSCLC adenocarcinoma of course this was after a little over 2 months trying to figure out what was going on with him and why he was having chest pain constantly and a cough that wouldn't go away, on 5/30/12 we found out it had metestasized and he had several spots on his…
My partner has stage 4 adenocarcinoma has 6 months to live.
So back in August 2011 she was diagnosed with stage 3. She decided not to do treatment and in a little less then a year its upgraded to stage 4. My wife decided to leave me right after she found out its moved. Problem I am having is dealing with both the break up and the knowing she is not doing well. I am finding this out…
Pneumonectomy ( Lung Removed )
Husband had his Left Lung ( entire lung ) removed last Mon. Feb. 8th.... I would like to hear from ANYONE who has had personal experience with this lung surgery... He is discouraged at how short of breath he is... I remind him that it's only been 5 days, encourage him to walk a little, and do the breathing treatment /…
Pailliative Care study from Mass General
In searching out information to help deal with my wife's Stage IV colorectal cancer I came across a study on the positive effects of starting palliative care in the early stages of lung cancer therapy instead of near the end. hope it is of use to some... Dr Temel's discusses her research results NBC News blurb on…
Compromised Immune system and Candida/Yeast/Thrush
I fought Advanced Small Cell Lung cancer in 2006, ending 18 doses of chemo (Cysplatin & Etoposide, EP6) in April and radiation in July. My immune system of course, gave me fits during. Had to take Procrit and Neupogen numerous times during treatment. I juiced daily after treatment and gradually my blood counts were…
My 79 year old mum has stage 4 lung cancer
My 79 year old mum was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer last August. The cancer did not spread and the liquids that were in the canals originally have gone. Her tumor is growing a little bit but not significantly. She was on two different chemos and then they put her on a chemo pill last month that caused a lot of…
New update
Hola, como estan todos? An update on my condition. I'm recovering very slow after my VAST surgery back in march. The coughing had subsided a bit but now is gotten stronger n constant. Docs don't know y this is happening... Well hello!!!!! Maybe cause I have a 5 mm nodule on my upper left lung Which they missed on all of…
July 10 CT Scan
Hi All, Scott had two rounds of Gemzar (six weeks) and a follow up CT scan on the 10th. Current tumors stable but now developing a pleural effusion. They are keeping him on Gemzar for another two rounds then will do an X-ray to see if the effusion has changed. His sister, who was diagnosed with leukemia six months after…
Update--_Dapsterd
Well Family....another week in ICU with two brain mets surgically removed. Director of radiation will wait til sept scans -mri and ct to determine course of action....Meanwhile ...have a hell of a summer they say after removing 60 ish staples!!!! hope all is well!!! Dave
yipee!!!
It's been a whole year and the scan is clear.heehee. cheers medi
Chemo drug Alimta
Hi all. I am a caregiver for my mom. She has NSCLC with mets to the brain. One tumor in the right lung and one in the middle of her cerebellum in her brain. She has gone through all of the radiation she can have to her lung and had chemo once a week throughout all of her radiation treatments. She has also had stereotactic…
Exellent resource for Lung Cancer patients
I occasionaly ask questions related to my wife's Stage IV colon cancer (with lung and liver mets) at cancergrace.org. They are building up a staff of specialists (abut 20 now), mostly oncologists I believe, to answer questions in their forums. This way you get answers from trained professionals. GRACE currently has…
Guidance for lung cancer ordeal
My lovely wife came down with stage III lung cancer which was removed along with her lower lung lobe. After getting positive feedback from the oncologist a couple of months ago and starting to get our lives back, I had to take my lovely wife to the ER after she fell and observing handwriting difficulties, fearing she may…
Looking for Surgeon Recommendations in the Kansas City area
I am visiting from the ovarian cancer discussion board. I received a call tonight from a lady in our church with lung cancer...early stage...not in lymph nodes. She lives in the Kansas City area and is looking for recommendations for a surgeon to remove the tumor in her lung. She was recommended to one at Centerpoint…
Age at diagnosis?
I'm curisous as to what was your age at diagnosis. My grandmother died of lung cancer, smoked two packs a day for 50 years. Both parents never smoked. Dad has passed, unrelated to lung cancer. Mom is still going strong at 74. I was just wondering is lung cancer an older persons disease? I'm 49 and been having a "smokers…
scanxiety
I had my 3 month ct (fluctuatin between x-rays and ct scans every 3 months) scan last thursday evening and have my appt with my oncologist tomorrow morning at 8am and I am just beside myself with worry...I had my right middle lobe removed Dec 2010 and staged 1a which I know is extremly fortunate..even taking a zanax these…
I just celebrated being a 5 years living with Stage IV Lung cancer and doing GREAT!
March 30th 2007, I was diagnosed with Stage IV Lung cancer and was not given a very good outlook by my doctors. I was on first line drugs for 2 years and then switched to a trial at Sloan Kettering. That only lasted 6 months before it spread, so started a 2nd line drug, Alimpta which has since been considered 1st line.…
lung cancer # 4
Have been treated for 4 separate NSCLCs in my right upper lobe. Was treated with sterotactic radiation for 3 of them and with chemo for the fourth. Was never a candidate for surgery due to conditon of lungs and heart. Problem started in 2009 and completed last chemo treatment sept of 2011. The problem lobe collasped after…
Progress Seen After 3 Treatments of Carbo-Alimta-Avistan
55 year old non-smaoker in excellent health (or so I thought) I was dx with Adnocernoma in left lung with mets to nodes and pleural effusion on March 28. Did a pleuraldesis procedure in mid-April. Marker tests came up negative for EGFR and ALK. Began Carbo-Alimta-Avistan treatment in early May. So we did CT and PET scans…
Fourth line chemo - SCLC Extensive
My husband might have to have fourth line chemo. First line was Carbo/Etoposide, six rounds (very effective), second line was Topotecan, five rounds (totally ineffective), third line CAV (has had three rounds)(we will know tomorrow with results of scan). He is having more bad days than good days, but still working.He was…
food tastes bad after radiation - what to eat?
He is not really eating anything at all, gets up to have 1/2 cup of coffee in the morning, does not eat, then is so tired from just moving from the bedroom to the kitchen table, he goes back to bed. He then gets up later in the day when my mom wakes him for meds, he drinks water and 1/2 glass of ice tea or cold drink,…
Question about SBRT
Hi , I'm new to this discussion. I'm usually on the Non Hodgkins Lymphoma group- that's what I've got. But tonight I found out that my brother has lung cancer. He said that it's a very small tumor and that the doc is going to treat him with 5 days of SBRT. That should be the end of it according to what he was told. He'll…

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