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Treatment options
Information on current treatment options and emerging treatments, including quality of life issues.
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Anyone experience allergy to titanium staples?
- By sharpie · New reply 11:03 am
- 4 replies
- Hello friends, I am 9 months post-op for VATS LRL lobectomy for carcinoid tumor resection. My lung was "re-sealed" using tiny titanium staples. I am still having daily moderate to severe pain at the lung ...
Question
- By robinhood · New reply 10:17 am
- 4 replies
- Anyone on this chemo cocktail: Carboplatin, Alimta and Avastin? I have stage iv nsclc and had been treated with Tarceva for 16 months and it has now stopped working. My oncologist proposed the above chemo ...
Were you advised to have a lung removed but didn't?
- By muffyruss · New reply 9:50 am
- 32 replies
- I can't decide whether to have the surgery or not. I'm only stage 0 or 1--they won't know the stage for sure until after the surgery. Could we hear from folks who decided against it? How long ago, did ...
Alitma Decision
- By saltypenguin · New reply yesterday at 1:44 pm
- 19 replies
- Unfortunately Tarceva did not work for me and I am off of that. The rash cleared up very fast. Less than a week, though I still have lots of dead skin as the rash heals. I am just finishing some radiation ...
Questions:Tarceva - dental side effects and reducing dosages
- By BeBeReader · New reply yesterday at 12:17 pm
- 8 replies
- My husband is a 5 year year NSCLC (IIIB/IV) survivor who has been taking Tarceva for the entire time he has been treated. We believe it has saved his life. He has had lots of side effects that have waxed ...
Standard Radiation vs Tomotherapy
- By JamesA · New reply February 7, 2010
- 7 replies
- My father is looking to begin radiation therapy shortly on a large solid tumor (10cm cubed) in his right lung that has a portion that surrounds the pulmanary arteries and veins. He also has lymph node ...
I Need Help.
- By Granny888 · New reply February 7, 2010
- 10 replies
- I know I read a lot about studies on Tarceva and Celebrex a couple weeks ago. My printer isn't really hooked up to a working computer (just needs to be moved) and I've been sick all week with a cold (though ...
BIOMAT...alternative treatment
- By drawing3d · New reply February 6, 2010
- 32 replies
- I am NOT an expert on the BIOmat and frankly, am just learning... What I have read makes perfect sense to me. It seems like it may be a great addition to an already healthy anti-cancer way of living ...
HOW MANY HAVE HAD SERIOUS ESOPHAGUS PROBLEMS AFTER RADIATION?
- By Farmerswife · New reply February 6, 2010
- 23 replies
- Hi all--My loved one suffered terribly from burns to his esophagus after radiation and accompanying chemo and I'm curious to know how many are/have experienced this? Susan ...
Taxotere
- By Florence2008 · New reply February 5, 2010
- 1 reply
- My husband was diagnosed in July with stage lllb wet) NSCLC. After three rounds of carbo/alima/avastin, a PET scan showed progression of NSCLC within lung (thankfully, no mets) and resolving pleural effusion ...
I've been on Tarceva for nsclc since 4/09. Tumor
- By MJames · New reply February 5, 2010
- 1 reply
- has shrunk to about 1/2 inch. PTL! I'm trying to figure out why people need to stay on Tarceva for maintenance if they are found to be NED. I'm hoping for NED when next scan is done. It seems to me that ...
I've been on Tarceva for nsclc since 4/09. Tumor
- By MJames · New reply February 5, 2010
- 2 replies
- has shrunk to about 1/2 inch. PTL! I'm trying to figure out why people need to stay on Tarceva for maintenance if they are found to be NED. I'm hoping for NED when next scan is done. It seems to me that ...
Maintenance therapy or take a break
- By Joakim · New reply February 5, 2010
- 14 replies
- I got my diagnose, NSCLC Stage IV, March 2009. From April to May I got Gemzar/Paraplatin/Avastin but on the follow-up in August the cancer had progressed. As 2nd line therapy I got Alimta and then I was ...
Avastin
- By jill · New reply February 5, 2010
- 15 replies
- Has anyone had experience using Avastin as a single-agent (as opposed to using in combo w/chemo)? I appreciate your input. Thanks ...
Alimta side effects -
- By jill · New reply February 4, 2010
- 15 replies
- My husband just started on Alimta.. He has advanced, recurrent stage IV disease (squamous cell). The side effects have been brutal - especially a cough that he did not have before: dry, hacking. Nausea ...
Poly-MVA
- By logan2kel · New reply February 4, 2010
- 4 replies
- Is anyone taking this supplement???? Would love some feedback ...
Pancreatic Cancer Site?
- By suziegirl · New reply February 4, 2010
- 11 replies
- A friend of a friend was just DX with pancreatic cancer In Amsterdam (she is American but lives there - 48 y/o) and told by her DR there was not much he could do...does anyone know of a site like this ...
Sloan Kettering Complementary Medicine
- By kkwv · New reply February 3, 2010
- 3 replies
- Has anyone seen Dr. Gary Deng who works in the area of complementary medicine at Sloan Kettering ...
Anyone getting Alimta only??
- By demika · New reply February 3, 2010
- 19 replies
- My mom was selected for Arm A (Alimta only every three weeks) with her clinical trial (Alimta & Sunitinib). I can't remember when or if she'll start the Sunitinib. Can anyone tell me how Alimta worked ...
New here
- By MindyParisi · New reply February 3, 2010
- 4 replies
- My 70 year old mother was told she has something on her lung and it needed to be watched, biopsied, or removed. It was her choice. She opted for biopsy and so far the results are inconclusive, but no ...