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Lung cancer
Share your personal experience with lung cancer. Discuss your treatments, share information you've learned along the way, and discuss strategies for screening and prevention.
hoarseness
- By verymerry · New reply October 26, 2009
- 4 replies
- Last Friday I finally learned what has been causing the terrible hoarseness that makes it very difficult to talk. I have had lung cancer for 1 1/2 years now but in June I developed asore throat that didnn't ...
toptecan
- By rene58 · Posted October 23, 2009
- 0 replies
- I just started oral topotecan, Has anyone had a good response with it ...
Lung Cancer (aka "Breath Cancer") on Beliefnet
- By lorihope · Posted October 14, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hi, All. I write for Beliefnet.com, and they just posted my guest blog, "A Breast Cancer Awareness Month Plea from a 'Breath Cancer' Survivor". http://blog.beliefnet.com/freshliving/20 09/10/a-breast-cancer-awareness-mon ...
happy dance time
- By kardiack · New reply September 2, 2009
- 4 replies
- hi guys, Got my results from my pet scan yesterday NED. Oct 3,2008 will be a year. There is hope for every one. I'm 3 b ...
Lymphedema
- By Patricia1212 · New reply August 25, 2009
- 1 reply
- I have had non small cell cancer twice in the right lung; almost six years apart, the second was a new cancer. Twice I had parts of the right lung removed and both times lymph nodes were removed for testing ...
Anyone with NSCLC epidermoid carcinoma, one lung dx stage IIIA
- By miwawrka · New reply August 18, 2009
- 2 replies
- My mum has had her left lung removed 02/16/09, the results say stage IIIA with mets discovered in lymph nodes as well...we don´t know what to do next...chemo or radiation or alternative medicine, strict ...
Mom recently dx with Lung Cancer-rejecting treatment
- By UnekeoneCC · New reply August 5, 2009
- 13 replies
- Hello. I am hoping to get support from others with a similar situation. My mother just found out that she probably has lung cancer. After several tests to help determine if her heart is up to undergoing ...
CONFUSED ABOUT STAGE IV REMISSION. ANY HELP?
- By ANDIQUES · New reply July 19, 2009
- 12 replies
- Man oh man...this is such a roller coaster! I can't believe all the extremes this cancer is putting me through! I was told I am in remission a couple weeks ago, but lately I keep wondering what does that ...
STAGE 4 BAC lung cancer
- By FAMILYGIRL · New reply July 17, 2009
- 8 replies
- ?????? anybody....just found out my sister doesnt have the strand it takes to take the drug Tarceva, waiting to find out whats next. Family still can`t believe my sister has lung cancer ...
Stage IV Lung Cancer
- By JoEdgell · New reply July 9, 2009
- 4 replies
- I have asked My husbands doctor about if all this is going to help him and he said no that the cancer was going to bet him. That he as it really bad. He has had 17 Radiation treatments and was suppose ...
Father has NSCLC BAC IV after 6 mo. pneumonia diagnosis
- By amberwaves · New reply June 29, 2009
- 14 replies
- My father Robert, entirely healthy at 65 years of age, swimming 2 miles daily, began to show breathing problems. Diagnosed with pneumonia for 6 months on antibiotics, the doctors finally decided to do ...
Spleen
- By 71133 · New reply June 8, 2009
- 3 replies
- Has anyone had an enlarged spleen as a result of Chemo. My husband 55, Stage IV NSCL has been on a 6 week break and has developed a pain in his left back. From what I've read it sounds like a enlarged ...
Father Diagnosed with Stage III or IV NSCLC
- By cjtripp55 · New reply May 13, 2009
- 7 replies
- 2 weeks ago, my dad (69 years old) was diagnosed with Stage III or Stage IV NSCLC at St. Vincent's Hospital in Cleveland. I live in Baltimore, but drove into town to talk with the doctors & my mother ...
Anxiety
- By jeannie32 · New reply May 12, 2009
- 2 replies
- Hi. I'm crawling out of my skin with anxiety and worry. My mother was diagnosed with stage IV NSCLC about a week ago. Today she has her first appointment with an oncologist. She lives hundreds of miles ...
Am I just freaking out ordoI need to worry?
- By lucky91208 · New reply April 30, 2009
- 8 replies
- I had 2/3 of my rightlung removed Sept. 26,2008. They removed all cancer and the did chemo just to be sure. My last chemo was Dec. 30,2008 Other than the fact that I get out of breath quickly I have been ...
Startled...chemo leaked out of the vein!!!
- By miwawrka · New reply April 27, 2009
- 3 replies
- My mum´s got her 3rd chemo round last Thursday, cisplatinum and navelbine, on her day 1 when she was supposed to get her last infusion of navelbine at 6pm, it leaked out and damaged her lower arm (check ...
i wish i known whats next
- By annee2 · New reply March 26, 2009
- 3 replies
- we had a pet scan my husband has 3 masses .one inthe upper right lobe 1.5cmone in the third right costovertebral junction of the medial aspect of the futh rib,3cm .lower thorax 1.8cm. they are going to ...
Thank You caregivers, partners, husbands, wives, children, friends, and...
- By cmcqb · Posted March 22, 2009
- 0 replies
- Today my wonderful husband broke down in front of me. FINALLY! He has held everything in for so long I was afraid of him having a stroke or heart attack. We did get the news Mar 6 that I am in remission ...
MAGRIT study or what after left lung pneumonotomy of NSCLC tumor,stage IIIA
- By miwawrka · New reply March 8, 2009
- 2 replies
- My mum, aged 57, an absolute non-smoker!!! has just had her left lung pneumonotomy yesterday morning after being diagnosed with epidermoid carcinoma (NSCLC tumour size 8cm) two weeks ago, as written in ...
my husband
- By eileen611 · New reply March 4, 2009
- 4 replies
- i am a care giver and wife to my husband who has sclc. a year ago this month we found out he had cancer that had spread to limp nodes and his bone in the hip. he went through 6 months chemo and pet scan ...
