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Non-small cell lung cancer - Stage IV
Support for those diagnosed with Stage IV non-small cell lung cancer.
Latest update on my amazing Clark
- By BexterF · New reply 5:49 pm
- 1 reply
- CLARK'S ALLERGIC REACTION (PNEUMONITIS) TO THE CHEMOTHERAPY CONTINUES TO BE A PROBLEM. I've been experiencing much anger knowing that the treatment in this case has made him worse but I know we would ...
Clark Update-Prayers Needed
- By BexterF · New reply 5:32 pm
- 20 replies
- Monday night, the doctors made the decision to move Clark to the Medical Surge ICU so he could be monitored more closely. He was having more difficulty breathing and his body was working too hard. His ...
Cisplatin/Alimta vs. Carboplatin/Taxol -- feedback please!
- By dwareham · New reply 4:30 pm
- 13 replies
- Dad was diagnosed Stage IV with mets to the brain on Halloween. We're in WBR now -- so far so good -- and talking chemo with his doctor. She suggests one of two therapies: Carboplatin / Taxol combo or ...
Radon exposure and high tension wires..any input????
- By Careensdaughter · New reply 4:15 pm
- 4 replies
- Hi this is a little off subject but I think this site may have somebody who may have done some research. I lost my mother to adenocarcinoma on 10-17-09. She had an extremely short battle as we only found ...
Quality or Quantity
- By jen80 · New reply 4:08 pm
- 26 replies
- My mom is 53yrs, stage iv, primary tumor in right lung with mets to other lung as well as liver, dx jan09. Had chemo/rad tx (6 weeks in total) before we found out that the cancer spread to other lung ...
stopping smoking????
- By mk13usmc · New reply 3:21 pm
- 43 replies
- I have stage IV lung cancer - both lungs and spread to my liver. I found out in May and have been on chemo every three weeks. I am 49 and have smoked since I was 14. It's been 5 months since I found out ...
Anyone enrolled in "veggie" clinical trial?
- By berlin2 · New reply 1:57 pm
- 10 replies
- I am curious to know if there is anyone out there who is/was enrolled in the clinical trial entitled: "Effects of Selected Vegetable and Herb Mix on Advanced NSCLC" # NCT00246727. It looks, potentially ...
COUGHING AND THROAT PAIN
- By Mikestratton2009 · New reply 12:46 pm
- 1 reply
- My husband has nsclc 4 and had his rounds of chemo of taxol/carbin... now he is on altima... he has a very bad cough and when coughing everything from his chest and throat and head hurt.. he was given ...
Please pray for Clark!!!!!
- By tiffmomiff · New reply 12:27 pm
- 10 replies
- i just got off the phone with becky "bexterf". clark is still in the hospital. Becky is asking that we pray and pray HARD! we are praying for a miracle she said. miracles happen everyday and lets pray ...
Getting a 2nd Opinion
- By Mom3x · New reply 12:22 pm
- 2 replies
- Its been a rough couple of weeks. My dad has been in the ER and hospital. They thought he had a heart attack. He has severe burning in the center of his chest. The EKG was irregular but the blood work ...
I have to be in a bad dream....my poor mom
- By saraa281 · New reply 10:30 am
- 9 replies
- My mom was dx with stage iv lung cancer in sep. 08. She did 7 rounds of chemo and it was too hard on my dad to drive her back and forth. He is 66 and has the disease where his nerves are dying (very painful ...
I have lung cancer and psoriasis
- By bratrice · New reply 8:14 am
- 5 replies
- Does anyone out there have psoriasis and lung cancer? I was diagnosed with cancer in July 08. Have had radiation and chemo beginning in 08/08 and then again from 04/09-06/09. I had 3 rounds of Avastin ...
Prayer request , please from one of our own.
- By cuddles53 · New reply yesterday at 10:33 pm
- 35 replies
- One of our team members e-mailed me today to ask if I would post on this site for her. Her husband is Bobby and she is Marie, Bobby was doing real well, for a while there,I mentioned him before in a post ...
Stage 4 breast cancer question
- By Faith33 · New reply yesterday at 8:46 pm
- 1 reply
- hello, Im new to this website..and was relieved to find this site.. A good friend of mine has stage IV cancer and just found out yesterday that it is in her lungs. she had a "window" placed in the lining ...
Mom
- By wantanswers · New reply yesterday at 7:18 pm
- 8 replies
- My mom just turned 65, and went from going to the gym daily, eating healthy, spending her days doing more than a 20 year old to hardly having enough energy to get off the couch. At the end of September ...
My daddy diagnosed and sent home to die. :(
- By immamama · New reply yesterday at 2:35 pm
- 26 replies
- Friday Oct. 16, 2009 my daddy started feeling a little ill and dizzy. Prior to this he worked 70 hours a week for the last 40 years running his own business. The picture of health from the outside. (Other ...
Alimta and Fatigue
- By lovingdaugther · New reply yesterday at 1:22 pm
- 10 replies
- Last Monday, my Mom had her first Alimta chemo treatment. This is her 2nd line treatment. When my Mom was diagnosed in March 2009, she was stage IIIB and had Cisplatin/Etoposide and radiation. The radiation ...
What to do?
- By gatnus · New reply yesterday at 8:24 am
- 15 replies
- My wife has been diagnosed with nsclc in her left lung an now has found she also has cancer in her left breast and possibly in her colon. She is 78 and has locked herself in the house. She refuses to ...
my first blog is up for "lung cancer foundation of america"!
- By tiffmomiff · New reply November 5, 2009
- 12 replies
- check it out.... www.lcfamerica.org ...
news i have been fearing
- By betterdays · New reply November 5, 2009
- 21 replies
- Today, my dad received the worst possible news from last weeks pscan. the doctor informed us that the cancer has spread rapidly throughout his body. The pain, shortness of breath and everything else is ...