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Non-small cell lung cancer - Stage III
Support for those diagnosed with Stage III non-small cell lung cancer.
desperate daughter
- By SADBB76 · New reply 8:23 pm
- 13 replies
- Somebody help me please... my dad has stage 3B possibly 4 NSCLC and I'm devastated... does anyone got better over this ...
Palliative Stand
- By gatnus · New reply 3:55 pm
- 42 replies
- My wife is 78 and just told me she wants to take a palliative stand on chemo/radiation and surgery. She said she had enough on doctors and tests for the last 3 months and will not take their treatments ...
does anyone get real depressed
- By lge · New reply yesterday at 11:57 am
- 17 replies
- lately I've been crying nearly everyday. I feel tired and lack of motivation. I want to do things but cant get my self too. Is this normal when someone u love has cancer ...
my sister was denied her chemo again today
- By lge · New reply November 18, 2009
- 10 replies
- 2 weeks ago I went to the doctor with my sister and he said she was too sick to recieve her chemo because she had bronchitis. Well today she went again and he said have you got your insurance yet? No ...
went for chemo and radiation yesterday
- By pjbubbles47 · New reply November 18, 2009
- 10 replies
- gm I went for my first round of radiation yesterday and of course the computer crashed so i was pretty much screwed yesterday. then ran over to my oncologist and had five in a half hours of chemo that ...
starting radiation and chemo tomorrow, im confused
- By pjbubbles47 · New reply November 17, 2009
- 12 replies
- 3a lung cancer and im starting tomorrow radiation and chemo then in 2010 the beginning of the new year i will have a lobectomy. im confused about some people say that u should have surgery first then ...
going crazy with my teenager
- By pjbubbles47 · New reply November 15, 2009
- 47 replies
- gm to all my angelfriends well i thought everything was under control in my household so i can do my treatments but they are not..my teenager is a very smart girl and shes still cutting out of school ...
SIDE EFFECTS CHEMO
- By aps · New reply November 15, 2009
- 5 replies
- Hi there, Just wanted to hear from others. My mom was diagnosed stage 111, nsclc August 2008. She was on Tarceva and doing great until August 2009 when it stopped working. She started chemo 3 weeks ago ...
Lung adenocarcinoma stage IIB/IIIA
- By atlanta · New reply November 15, 2009
- 13 replies
- I just had surgery for stage I and was found to have positive lymph nodes and one mediastinal miconodul during the surgery. Instead of wedge resection I ended up with lobectomy. Presently on pain med ...
Stage 3a and confused about treatment
- By sak222 · New reply November 15, 2009
- 4 replies
- Newbie to this site - Diagnosed 5/26, stage 3a mediastinum nsclc (after one year failure to diagnose/misdiagnose by internist and his colleagues) Wound up at Mem. Sloane Kettering. Clinical trial protocol ...
OKAY, I'M SCARED NEED SOME ADVICE PLEASE?
- By sadie2 · New reply November 13, 2009
- 5 replies
- Husband stage 3A adenocarcinoma, went through 5 weeks of radiation and chemo for possible lung resection. Now waiting for CT scan in about a week and a half. He did pretty good through the chemo/rad ...
STAGE 3A LUNG CANCER CHEMO AND RADIATION OVER WAITING FOR SCAN
- By sadie2 · New reply November 13, 2009
- 3 replies
- Just wondering, my husband's chemo oncologist, says that she did not care if while on chemo what he ate or drank, but other patients had told us their doctor said do not eat anything with immune boosters ...
okay starting chemo and rad on the same day
- By pjbubbles47 · New reply November 12, 2009
- 12 replies
- okay to all my angelfriends got through yesterday it was a piece of cake going monday for a dry run then on tuesday i have to be at my oncologist office at nine to two thirty for five in a half hours ...
Trying to hlep my mom as much as i can!
- By Doralou · New reply November 11, 2009
- 3 replies
- She is done with her treatments which where very hard and long... but she is doing ok now but she is still using the feeding tube and not able to eat much it has been 3 weeks since her last radiation ...
coughing up blood
- By wingnutnana24 · New reply November 9, 2009
- 1 reply
- I have started coughing up small amounts of blood in the last 3 weeks. At first it was just small streaks, now it is getting to be bigger pieces. I have mentioned this to my oncologist and pulmonogogist ...
lung cancer was found in my overies now
- By nybundys · New reply November 9, 2009
- 9 replies
- docters dont no if my cancer was ovarian or lung guess pet scans are not what thay seem i had my upper left loab out last feb had chemo and radiation then started getting pains in stomach 5 times to er ...
Need to hear from any and all Tarceva Users....need help!
- By jdmo · New reply November 8, 2009
- 11 replies
- Well I never thought after surgery, 16 weeks of chemo, and 6 weeks of radiation that the last leg of the treatment could be the worst.....BUT it appears to be that way. My husband is now taking Tarceva ...
I Am Worried
- By simplyklb · New reply November 6, 2009
- 2 replies
- Hi All, I am worried about Mom. She has been off Tarceva for 3 1/2 weeks. She has hardly any energy... enough to get up and do a few little things and then she is back laying down. She is eating, thanks ...
Pain in lower back ribs
- By kailani · New reply November 5, 2009
- 4 replies
- I'm hoping someone can help. For the past 2 weeks I've been experiencing severe pain in my lower left rib cage, more in the back than the front. I contacted my ONC as any pain I always think it's cancer ...
Vitamin D in conjunction with Tarceva???
- By sojourner · New reply November 5, 2009
- 13 replies
- Hi Everyone, This topic may have been covered before but I am newish to the site and thought I would bring it up again. I have stage IIIb nsclc (BAC). Inoperable. I had 5 rounds of carbo/taxol and have ...