Support for those diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer.
- By fumesy · 3:00 pm
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- What did we expect from the 3 Networks? Their news is not fair & balanced why should we expect fair coverage of LC. Notice not one clap for John McCain, was this a continuation of the DN Convention? Some ...
- By localsun · Yesterday at 11:37 pm
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- hello, I am under my wife's loggin and my name is Carl and my mother just recently got diagnosed with poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the lung with a metatastis to the Right humerus with a pathological ...
- By EddieSD · September 5, 2008
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- Question... does anyone else but me itch like CRAZY after chemo? This time after round four is driving me NUTS!... I am having other hystemine reactions, like puffy eyes, and cloudy head, and icky stomach ...
- By andmegab · September 4, 2008
- 23 replies
- met with the surgeon today. he was an hour late due to an emergency surgery. my oncologist was there too. that made me really nervous, expecting bad news, but...THE CANCER HAS NOT SPREAD, AND THERE IS ...
- By karilynn · September 2, 2008
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- Well, we met with a surgeon today. He is ordering a PET scan and CT scan to see if Mom is eligible for surgery. Her first PET scan showed no metastatic disease but the surgeon said he wants to see if ...
- By jyuan · September 2, 2008
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- Hi, everyone, I have enjoyed my summer this year, invited my sister-in-law and my niece to come over from China to visit me for two months, did a lot of things that I couldn't do last summer... The most ...
- By bayrealtor · September 2, 2008
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- Well, we got the news a few days ago that the letters from the doctors helped and Cathys Mom & Dad will be able to come here to spend time with us and will arrive Sept. 13th! Very difficult for folks ...
- By lorbethm · September 2, 2008
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- I'm very very nervous because I botched up the last time I went back to work. I've basically been off work for a year. I was able to go back from Mid-March until June, but I had my third surgery in July ...
- By drawing3d · September 1, 2008
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- I am so far looking at these doctors: The one I have been assigned at MD Anderson: Dr. Sujit Prabhu Dr. Franco DeMonte (if I can get him) and Dr, Laligam N. Sekhar at Harborview in Seattle Washington ...
- By horningfamily · September 1, 2008
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- Hello all, I am pleased to say that Mom's memorial service at her church went very well yesterday. About 75 plus people attended and I decided last week to do three readings and welcome people and thank ...
- By drawing3d · August 31, 2008
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- Anybody heard of this Seattle based medical center? I am still looking for extremely experienced skull base surgeons to remove my lower, deep seated cerebellum tumor and this doctors seems most qualified ...
- By texaszan · August 31, 2008
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- My husband is having a lot of problems with nausea and vomiting. His chemo is mild and not supposed to cause this much distress. I'm wondering if it's the pain meds. He's on a lot of pain meds. Has anyone ...
- By J-me · August 31, 2008
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- If you were a newly diagnosed patient and your oncologist gave you a lung cancer survivor kit, what would you like to have in it? We are preapring another fundraiser in November, Playing for a Cure Bowlathon ...
- By invictus · August 30, 2008
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- Hi, My mother has recently started her second-line treatment of Tarceva. Since then, she has gotten the facial rash and the tenderness of the inside of her mouth like we were told was going to happen ...
- By SusanL1 · August 30, 2008
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- Hi All: About a month ago, I had sent an email to the person in charge of our homeowner's association newsletter, asking her to add the lung cancer flyer to the community newsletter. I hadn't received ...
- By tweetyb · August 30, 2008
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- Hi Everyone, My mom is Eileen (Bixbabe) she is at Moffit and she has swelling on the brain, she also has 3 tumors on the brain 1 very large and 2 small, they are trying to get the swelling down with steriods ...
- By EddieSD · August 29, 2008
- 26 replies
- I'm just wondering what you all do all day. I am in bed almost all the time. Sometimes I get up and sit, I get up to eat dinner, but thats about it. I get bursts of energy... partiularly just before chemo ...
- By ericnilson · August 29, 2008
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- The newsletter I wrote to about lung cancer wrote a story. But did not mention the Lung Cancer Mortality Act, and blamed lung cancer mostly on smoking. Newsletter left out statistics on 20% of new women ...
- By ericnilson · August 29, 2008
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- I sent below request to a healthcare newsletter: "I get a copy of your healthcare letter. I would like to ask you the favor of doing a healthcare letter on lung cancer. The fact that Lung Cancer research ...
- By worriedgrl · August 29, 2008
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- Hi everyone, My dad had a FNA biopsy last week and the result came back negative for cancer. Fantastic news for him and the family. we're all so excited when got the news. Today we took him to the Oncologist ...
