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I've went up a step
- By kardiack · New reply yesterday at 1:50 pm
- 11 replies
- hi all, thought I'd let you know I went to the onc. yesterday and he is not doing a pet this time only xray, I have been ned for a year. I'm also getting my port out dec 15. yepeeee. will have pet scan ...
Advocacy - help us keep the momentum going!!!
- By amymaura · New reply November 19, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hi everyone, It has been a busy week at LCA. We had lung cancer survivors and their loved ones here from all over the country to attend the taping of an ice-skating, music, and cancer awareness special ...
MY MOM'S SCANS ARE CLEAN!!!!
- By GerrysGirl · New reply November 18, 2009
- 10 replies
- My mom had her doctor appointment today and her scans are CLEAN!!! She has only been on full dose Tarceva for about two months (she had to back off the full dose for a bit in the beginning because the ...
Happy Veterans Day
- By sclcsurvivor · New reply November 11, 2009
- 14 replies
- Thank you to all veterans and their families for your service. If you have been diagnosed with lung cancer and are a Vietnam Veteran, it is Agent Orange connected and you should be receiving VA disability ...
Great Scans today!! :-)
- By gesmommy · New reply November 10, 2009
- 19 replies
- Hi Everyone...I just came back from the doctors after having my first scans since starting Tarceva. So far its working! My scans show a reduction of the primary mass by 70% in just sixty days ...
Arizona proclaims November as LCA month
- By frenchy · New reply November 9, 2009
- 6 replies
- For the 3rd year in a row Arizona has proclaimed that November is lung cancer awareness month, just got the proclamation in the mail which is great just wish the Governor would publicly announce it and ...
Praise God!
- By cierrad111 · New reply November 7, 2009
- 5 replies
- My Dad's PET scan results came back yesterday...They cannot find the spot on his lung...ITS GONE!!!! However, the spot on his throat is still there...no bigger no smaller...SO THAT'S GOOD NEWS...his cell ...
I Believe in Miracles!
- By CKP · New reply November 6, 2009
- 17 replies
- I got the news from the specialist that he sees NO spot on my liver at all! NOTHING! He looked at the scan, read the report, looked at the scan again and thinks they meant a "less than" 1 cm lesion, NOT ...
Boston Lung Cancer Vigil a Huge Success! Watch TV Clips here!
- By jgaynor711 · New reply November 6, 2009
- 11 replies
- Last night's vigil was amazing! Over 400 people showed up and stood in the Belvidere Plaza at the Prudential Center for over an hour and a half to listen to incredible speeches from our local legislators ...
Events! Events! Lung Cancer Awareness Month!
- By amymaura · Posted November 5, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hi everyone, We keep getting calls from people saying "nothing is happening during Lung Cancer Awareness Month." But there's good stuff happening in many many places! Someone already posted about Shine ...
New Test
- By Nona · New reply November 5, 2009
- 5 replies
- Let us pray this this discovery is all that the article promises. [Google Daily Mail to get picture, comments, etc.] Daily Mail New test for lung cancer 'could save thousands' By Jo Macfarlane Last updated ...
Thank you oncology nurses on Today
- By frenchy · New reply November 5, 2009
- 3 replies
- I was so happy to see the oncology nurses yielding their signs for lung cancer awareness on the Today show this morning, thank you ladies. When Al Rooker asked what they were there for they said for lung ...
Todays "Today Show"
- By sharon717 · New reply November 4, 2009
- 12 replies
- My husband just let me know that Al Roker talked to some onocology nurses that were holding a sign about it being Lung Cancer Awareness Month out in the plaza this morning. He didn't do a full interview ...
Great Job in Philadelphia
- By ati5571 · New reply November 4, 2009
- 3 replies
- The Philadelphia Pa Free to Breathe Lung Cancer Walked that i participated in over the weekend raised $206,000.00. That is awesome. And 1781 people participated. Next year i plan to double the size of ...
Nancy Grace
- By robinwd · New reply November 4, 2009
- 6 replies
- Nancy Grace did a great Lung Cancer Awareness month spot last night. She listed all of the important facts that we all espouse, and credited LCA with its (our!) efforts in getting the word out! Thank ...
petitions to the Government
- By Celia123 · New reply November 4, 2009
- 8 replies
- Today, I saw my oncologist, we had our usual natter and he told me that he is still surprised that I have got so far with no obvious signs of my inoperable lung cancer returning. He told me that the chemo ...
Resolving pleural effusion
- By Florence2008 · New reply October 31, 2009
- 6 replies
- My husband, dx'd stage IIIb, adenocarcinoma lung ca July 2009. After six rounds carbo/alimta/avastin infusions, latest CT shows no change from previous CT (shrinkage of RUL tumor which may represent scar ...
LDN SCAN RESULTS
- By abhinj · New reply October 30, 2009
- 8 replies
- Good morning friends: My visit with doc yesterday went very well. He went over my latest scan in great detail. Invited me to sit and view disk with him and he explained everything. (Think I'm falling ...
Was so scared now a small sigh of relief
- By northgeorgia · New reply October 30, 2009
- 18 replies
- I was diagnosed the middle of August with nsclc. The stage was either 3A or 2B. Because the mass had infiltrated the pulmonary veins and gone into the carina after being put to sleep the thoracic surgeon ...
Wife's affair with bald headed guy over
- By sclcsurvivor · New reply October 30, 2009
- 13 replies
- I have hair again. Last PCI was 6/2/09 and got a haircut this morning. Even though everybody said I looked good bald, I think they were just trying to make me feel good. Happy Day, Cecil ...