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What can you do in the fight against Lung Cancer

SaltyDog
  • By SaltyDog · Posted April 3, 2008
  • In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 16 replies
  • I have been on this site and its predecessor for two years. I have often read someone asking: HOW can we band together to fight lung cancer? I have a clear personal view but , in the interest of full ...

Three Years and feeling fine

SaltyDog
  • By SaltyDog · Posted March 28, 2008
  • In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 24 replies
  • Three Years ago today, I got the call that a CAT scan, conducted for another purpose, had discovered a 5cm lump in my chest that looked like lung cancer. That ranks as a bad day. Just over two years ago ...

Going from Alimta to Taxotere.

SaltyDog
  • By SaltyDog · Posted March 1, 2008
  • In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 6 replies
  • After 19 months and 26 rounds of Alimta, my latest scans showed significant progression. Time to shift and the new candidate is Taxotere. The Onc recommends that I have it in three one week sessions followed ...

Two years and counting

SaltyDog
  • By SaltyDog · Posted March 29, 2007
  • In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 19 replies
  • Had a Stable PET/CAT and got the report on the second anniversary since Diagnosis. Alimta has been working for me for the past 35 weeks with very few side effects. I have some shortness of breath and ...

Stable is goood, Shinkage is better

SaltyDog
  • By SaltyDog · Posted August 31, 2006
  • In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 3 replies
  • Scan is in! got great news that my bone mets are all stable with reduced SUV and lung tumors are fewer in number and smaller in size. Whoee! Alimta + Zometa appear to be doing good things to bad things ...

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