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Treatment options
Information on current treatment options and emerging treatments, including quality of life issues.
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Rebound CHAIR lets you RUN while SITTING DOWN...
- By drawing3d · New reply 9:15 pm
- 5 replies
- I was reading another post online here this morning by Jessica815 about the wondrous benefit to our immune system if we can use a rebound trampoline. Her information reminded me of a conversation I had ...
LDN - it's all in the delivery
- By ACS · New reply 4:09 pm
- 17 replies
- Hello everyone, Thought I would report back with my experiences of LDN. As some - especially Dee - may recall, my first experiences with LDN were disappointing as I had significant side-effects relating ...
Comments in local Obits re: cancer
- By cards7up · New reply 4:08 pm
- 5 replies
- I didn't know which topic to pick so just picked this one. I was reading our local obits today and two ladies had died of cancer. These are some of the comments made in there obits, which I found heartwarming ...
Can someone please advise me?
- By Gwynne · New reply 10:35 am
- 6 replies
- I have written about my stepdad, Jim, several times. He is 78 and was diagnosed 10 weeks ago with lung cancer. He was told he probably had it for about 2 1/2 years. It is in the center of his chest and ...
R U ready 2 quit smoking 4 good?
- By Doubleightnine · New reply yesterday at 7:01 pm
- 1 reply
- From Reader's Digest. (Excerpts.) Stop Smoking for Good. Get smart about your body with Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz. By Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. Q: I'm finally ready to quit smoking. What's ...
Genetics is Behind Cancer
- By simplyklb · New reply yesterday at 6:17 pm
- 13 replies
- Hi All, I really believe that genetics plays a large part of if you get cancer or not. Sure there are environmental factors that increase your risk. I have spent enough time researching and reading and ...
LDN and Tarceva
- By kad71 · New reply yesterday at 3:40 am
- 17 replies
- My husband and I have been look for treatment options for my Father in law. He has received a first line chemo and the cancer is back. He has stage 3 non small cell squamous cell lung cancer. I am wondering ...
help on swallowing after radiation
- By Baldy · New reply November 18, 2009
- 4 replies
- I am trying to search the web to see if anyone has had the following experience with cancer of the voice box. I was diagnoised with cancer cells on my vocal cords stage 2 in May of this year. i started ...
Tarceva Problems
- By sunshine2gal · New reply November 18, 2009
- 9 replies
- My mom has had a toe nail infection and now dad is taking her to the immediate care center with a finger infection (kind of the middle of the finger). I have read about the nail infections in the literature ...
Tarceva or any other hope at this point?
- By Gwynne · New reply November 18, 2009
- 7 replies
- My step dad, Jim, was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer on Sep. 1, 2009. He did 12 aggressive radiation treatments and was so strong and healthy to begin with. His Doctors started the radiation about ...
Electromagnetic scalar and LDN
- By davern · New reply November 18, 2009
- 1 reply
- I have been apprised of a technology for treating various conditions called Electromagnetic scalar energy. Supposedly it has been used for treating cancer, among other things. I would like to find out ...
Massachusettes General
- By REG · New reply November 18, 2009
- 8 replies
- Where does the term adenocarcinoma fit in with small-cell and non-small-cell? Can it be either or just NSC? The "new" genetic screening that is all in the news--How is it different from the Rational Therapeutics ...
Poly-MVA
- By logan2kel · New reply November 17, 2009
- 2 replies
- Is anyone taking this supplement???? Would love some feedback ...
Alimta, fatigue and steroids
- By Richelle13 · New reply November 17, 2009
- 5 replies
- Hi, my had her first Alimta last Thursday. on Sunday she had fatigue,loss of appetite, depression and nausea. her first line of treatment was gemzar/carbo and we found when she stopped the steroids (hers ...
Confusion
- By sunshine2gal · New reply November 16, 2009
- 4 replies
- My mom had some confusion a few times this week. I was wondering if this could be from her Tarceva or if anyone else had experienced something similar. For example, the first time she thought we had visitors ...
BAC that is multifocal
- By magazine2 · New reply November 16, 2009
- 18 replies
- Hi, As you all know I have BAC , but I also have multifocal BAC, I was wondering if any of you have that kind.? If so, please let me know. Have you had to have treatment for it or are you just watching ...
Whole Brain Radiation--To do it or not???????
- By MicheleL · New reply November 15, 2009
- 33 replies
- My dad has ext small cell lung cancer diagnosed in May 2009. He has just finished treatment and must go for a PET/CT scan to see how we are doing. Clinically, he is breathing better, his coloring is better ...
Stereotactic Radiation
- By Blondezilla · New reply November 15, 2009
- 17 replies
- Hi Everyone, I am considering radiation instead of surgery. I wanted to get some opinions from all of you. I had my LLL removed back in April and then the cancer came back and spread to my lymph node ...
Adenocarcinoma
- By REG · New reply November 14, 2009
- 2 replies
- Where does the term adenocarcinoma fit in with small-cell and non-small-cell? Can it be either or just NSC? The "new" genetic screening that is all in the news--How is it different from the Rational Therapeutics ...
Tarceva and Chest Pain
- By sunshine2gal · New reply November 14, 2009
- 11 replies
- My mom is stage IV nsclc. She is on the second line of treatment of Tarceva. Her first treatment was carbo/gemzar. Her primary tumor shrunk by 50%, but then we found out she had spread to fluid around ...