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Non-small cell lung cancer - Stage III
Support for those diagnosed with Stage III non-small cell lung cancer.
going crazy with my teenager
- By pjbubbles47 · New reply November 15, 2009
- 43 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 ...
Just wondering
- By Barbara1 · New reply November 4, 2009
- 10 replies
- I have met this nasty beast twice, the first time in 2004 with removal of my right upper lobe no futher treatment due to no lymph node involvement. In 2006 I had a lymph node in mediastatium non operable ...
Xeloda?
- By hellored · New reply November 4, 2009
- 1 reply
- FIrst of all I want to thank you all for jumping in and passing along your recommendations for an Oncologist up at Yale for my Dad. I was wondering if anyone has been on Xeloda? For the last 10 days in ...
STIMUVAX vaccine week 1
- By Radamidov · New reply November 4, 2009
- 5 replies
- Hi guys, So my mother got accepted into the phase III of this worldwide clinical trial. A few of you have emailed me to keep you posted on her status and what happens, how she feels etc. So I will be ...
Recommendation for Oncologist at Yale/New Haven
- By hellored · New reply November 4, 2009
- 17 replies
- Hi there, I have just joined this amazing group. What inspiration! My father has just started his fight. He is on his second round of Chemo (Taxotere/Cisplatin).He seems to be handling it okay with mostly ...
Good one year scan results. What next?
- By erich · New reply November 3, 2009
- 9 replies
- It's been one year since I ended treatment for Stage IIIA NSCLC. My treatments were radiation and chemo (cisplatin and etopocide) only, no surgery. My six-month CT Scan was NED and the latest showed no ...
Best Books to Read
- By TamiO · New reply November 3, 2009
- 13 replies
- I read an amazing book by a woman in my area who beat final stage melanoma 100% through God called "A Blessed Journey" by Cindy Cox. I thought it would be nice if you could recommend books that have helped ...