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My husband has NSCLC,it was told to us ,that NSC would go to your brain,any truth in that
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Lung Cancer
- By butterfly1942
- Posted October 22, 2009 at 3:08 pm · 4 replies
- In Non-small cell lung cancer - Stage III
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- By cuddles53
- Posted October 22, 2009 at 3:24 pm
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Don't listen to well meaning friiends and co-workers. Nothing will go to any ones brain unless it is meant to be. It is not something that automatically travels to the brain. Lung cancer has many places it likes to spread too. One is the other lung, the brain, the adrenal glands, the bones, and kidneys. but ... it does not mean it will do that. it is just another thing we are told to watch for. We have so many good medicines to take now to fight our lung cancer, so don't listen to people who like to say these things as if they have all the answers. Also don't read stats, they will only scare you too. It used to be that years ago there was no meicine that would go in to the brain to kill our cancer. now we have a drug called Tarceva that crosses this blod brain barrier ad we can fight it with this pill also.
god bless Sandy
- By kq182
- Posted October 22, 2009 at 3:29 pm
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Hi, I do not know who told you that, but yes it can go to the brain, it also can go to other main organs, liver, kidney, bones, really anywhere, it acts like "seeds in the wind" as our onc told us, it can break away from the original tumor and spead, which is "mets" anywhere really.
My husband recently passed away from NSC lung cancer, and he did have brain mets, but it ended up being widely advanced mets throughout his body which ended in his death, he was just 44 and in perfect health until diagnosis this past Jan. My husband fought with all he had, had radiation, chemo, had shrinkage in the orginal tumor of 70 percent in size, but the cancer won. And it came on him so fast in the end that thankfully he was not really in his right mind to understand that he was dying.
Cancer is a very scary thing, and the worst thing that I have lived through in my life, watching my strong, young husband die so quickly. Take care, Karen
- By cards7up
- Posted October 22, 2009 at 3:52 pm
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Hi, was your husband re-staged from your previous post of stage IV? What type of chemo is he receiving now? How has he been doing? Take care, JC
- By Marylou1
- Posted October 22, 2009 at 8:08 pm
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Hi,
I was going to ask if you would share a little more information with us.
Love to all,
Marylou
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