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cant eat
- By jostring · New reply August 19, 2009
- 2 replies
- please help, my husband was diagnosed with larngeal cancer in 07 after radiation was given a clean bill of health, awoke back in june to cough that broke his rib from the spine area after several doctors ...
Christmas Cards
- By Breezer · New reply August 19, 2009
- 3 replies
- I have spent the last 2 hours seaching for Lung Cancer Christmas cards on line and I have found every cancer but lung...unless it was in the UK or Canada or Australia. Do we not have a source? I think ...
Julie lost her battle
- By momofjulie · New reply August 14, 2009
- 33 replies
- My beautiful, smart, creative daughter, Julie, passed away yesterday morning. She waited for our entire family to be there, her best friend, and her wonderful husband, Scott was holding her hand. It was ...
What could be wrong?
- By Kailin63 · New reply August 8, 2009
- 17 replies
- I don't know if i have lung cancer or not. I know i'm on a site where people are already supposed to have lung cancer... but no one believes me at home, (i'm 14... so that's why) so i suppose asking here ...
COUGH AFTER SURGERY?
- By lisalulu · New reply August 1, 2009
- 11 replies
- I have just had a lobemctomy a month ago and have had a cough not a bad one but a cough that is a lingering one, The Doctor is not worried and said that since I had one before maybe that is just me ...
histimine count
- By pappy · New reply July 29, 2009
- 2 replies
- My husband died from Colon cancer after one year. His histimine count had been as high as 3000. Has anyone done a study on high histimine count and cancer ...
..condolences..
- By a_white_rabbit · New reply July 14, 2009
- 58 replies
- ..i so hate losing a sheep, how much more so to lose a human.. ..i know we're gonna have fall-out here, it's in the nature of our problem, but damn, damn, damn, we shouldn't have to go to the fighter's ...
27 year-old woman, typical carcinoid tumor, need advice
- By liligoldman · New reply June 20, 2009
- 14 replies
- Hello all, First of all let me say I am so inspired and awed by everyone here who has been so brave in the face of cancer. I am looking to all of you fighters out there for support and advice. I am only ...
New Lung Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Fighting Early -Stage Lung Cancer
- By dmz · Posted June 11, 2009
- 0 replies
- Found this recent article: http://smoking-quit.info/novel-lung-canc er-vaccine-shows-promise-in-fighting-ear ly-stage-lung-cancer ...
7mm nodule
- By donb_1965 · New reply June 7, 2009
- 13 replies
- Today I had to have a CT scan done for some broken vertebra in my back from an injury i had 3 months ago, but when i got my report back it made mention of a 7 mm noncalcified nodule at the left lung base ...
STAND UP TO CANCER FUNDING
- By lucy56 · New reply June 6, 2009
- 5 replies
- Hi Iam new to a computer and I can not spell to save my life so please bear with me me Okay here go,s my first post I have heard that the money raised for Stand Up For Cancer Research has been given out ...
Did anyone get a Strange Email??
- By Chi-Dreamer · New reply May 26, 2009
- 7 replies
- Did anyone receive a strange email from someone named Bianca? I am cautious due to the message is looking for love and a friend and appears from out of the US. She said she got my email from Inspire ...
Need info on new pericardial effusion folllowing vats surgery
- By csmith8354 · New reply May 8, 2009
- 5 replies
- On march 16 I had a VATS surgery to remove a tumor in my upper left lung. I had a upper left lung resection and was told that I'm cancer free. Got sent home too early and was back at the hospital for ...
To Dr.West or Survivors: NCSLC Squamous Treatment Ideas?
- By sunshine2gal · New reply April 27, 2009
- 9 replies
- What treatments might work the best for stage IV NCSLC squamous? Are there other drug options if the first line doesn't work well? Thanks ...
Agent Orange and Service Connected Disability
- By Nova_Scotia · New reply April 26, 2009
- 7 replies
- Hello I would like to know if anyone out there that has been diagonised with Small Cell Lung Cancer has been able to recieved a service connected disability with the VA due to Agent Orange. My husband ...
ct scan
- By tlookingforcurestge4 · New reply April 23, 2009
- 2 replies
- Hello everyone, Was wondering if you ask for the lowest amount of radiation to be given while having a ct scan done, does it affect your results reading in any way? Thank You, Tonya ...
Agent Orange and Service Connected Disability
- By Nova_Scotia · New reply April 22, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hello I would like to know if anyone out there that has been diagonised with Small Cell Lung Cancer has been able to recieved a service connected disability with the VA due to Agent Orange. My husband ...
Tarceva - dry mouth & dry skin
- By Maikido · New reply April 21, 2009
- 15 replies
- I've been on Tarceva about 5 or 6 weeks now and I think i'm getting extremely dry; manly inside my ears but now my tongue is getting dry too, especially if I don't drink a lot of water during the day ...
LC Pray-ers
- By KATHEF · New reply April 19, 2009
- 18 replies
- Hi, you all pray a lot. I covet your prayers. In the midst of Mom's SCLC and anxiously obsessing about how long my mother will end up living, my otherwise healthy 40 year old cousin died during childbirth ...
Acid Reflux
- By mamanolte · New reply April 5, 2009
- 14 replies
- This was in the February issue of Prevention magazine. While I didn't chew gum I did have hard candy. Never made the connection but it did provide some relief. Cheryll Here's the text: "Here's an easy ...