Non-small cell lung cancer - Stage IV

Support for those diagnosed with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer.

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Pains AVASTIN or ALIMTA

By Loutil22 · New reply 5:48 am
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I am under maintenance ALIMTA and AVASTIN since 7 months. I take steroids, B12 and acid folic. I have very strong muscular and articular pains, a deceleration of touts my movements and that perdure. I ...

Mom Is Doing Great After Spine Surgery!

By autowoman · New reply 5:39 am
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Mom had emergency spine surgery Thursday night. I just found out that T6 was shattered so they rebuilt T4 through T9. She is already getting out of ICUs and can get up with assistance and walk baby steps ...

taxotere as second line chemo for Stage 4 squamous cell

By frogie13 · New reply 5:18 am
5 replies
Help please! My husband Francis has just seen his onc. initially had 4 cycles of gemzar/carboplatin which caused the lung tumor to shrink but not the liver mets. Dr suggested trialing tarceva without ...

who has been on Gemzar?

By alicenoele · New reply 5:08 am
10 replies
After 4 rounds of Cisplatine/Alimta and a third one.I stayed stable a whole year on Alimta.Then my onc decided my kidneys did not want Alimta any more .So after a 2 months break the cancer was increasing.So ...

MRI ?Onc ref slight headache

By bsdscsts12 · New reply 4:17 am
7 replies
I spoke Wednesday with my onc ref slight headache and can I do an MRI. He responded with the recent April 18th Brain ct showed nothing. According to my onc if it was a met with any such symptoms it would ...

TARCEVA DIVAS AND DUDES OLE! OLE!! OLE!

By Marie-Zee100 · New reply 3:56 am
132 replies
Welcome Newbees Divas and Dudes! Tis Cinco de Mayo! Magaritas, Guacamole and Tacos are waiting for you in the den. Pop on your sombrero and shake your maracas. What's happening in Tarcevaland ...

Stage 4 Lung Adeno: Sharing My Mom's Story

By jugo03 · New reply 3:38 am
8 replies
Hi! My mom was diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung Adenocarcinoma last January 25, 2013 after her first PET/CT scan. Let me begin how her story started. 1. Early September 2012, she started coughing sputum with ...

tarceva stopped working

By Stelytsa · New reply 3:27 am
3 replies
Hi Everyone, I am looking for some information and frankly some advice on my husbands next step. He was diagnosed with lung cancer August of 2011.. it had spread to the liver, bones, brain. We started ...

does Tarceva help if you dont have genetic marker?

By elbro · New reply 1:37 am
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Hello! Just wondering if there is research on using tarceva without having the genetic marker? My mom (age 80) was just diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and we are awaiting results of the tests for ...

FDA approval for Tarceva as 1st line tx

By Russia · New reply 1:08 am
18 replies
FDA approved erlotinib (Tarceva, Astellas Pharma Inc.) for the first-line treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients whose tumors have epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR ...

I can't find the Alimta discussion

By gloryg · New reply yesterday at 11:09 pm
4 replies
I thought starting that thread was a really good idea and now I can't find it. Is there any way we can tag a discussion ...

So sad

By Jennarose · New reply yesterday at 11:01 pm
15 replies
My moms left lung is completely collapsed the tumor is literally squishing the airway closed. The tumor is about 2-3 cm away from Blocking the right airway.. Mom has some kind of infection and they can't ...

Please- need advice- we are running out of time

By Caitybug · New reply yesterday at 10:55 pm
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Hi everyone: My mom has been fighting for 2.5 years, stage IV NSCLC. She did Tarceva for a while, when she stopped responding she did some clinical trials. One of them was Efatanib- then that stopped ...

STABLE SCAN! I AM SO GRATEFUL!

By Marie-Zee100 · New reply yesterday at 10:44 pm
57 replies
Diagnosed 1-2010. My doc said I probably have 11 months to live. 11months of carbo plat. and avastin and my hero TARCEVA. I am still riding the Tarceva pony. I know it has given me precious time. I pray ...

Is anyone here using afatinib (BIBW2992)?

By caseyandkrystie · New reply yesterday at 10:14 pm
19 replies
Hi all, i have been lurking for a while , I am here for my mom. Shes a chinese never smoker, and shes only 56. She started coughing and suffering from back pain in summer of 2012. Biopsies in August 2012 ...

Is my mom's meaness due to morphine, chemo brain,or what ?

By Dhokey6 · New reply yesterday at 8:53 pm
16 replies
Does anybody have any experience with the cancer patient being mean ? I don't know if it's morphine, too much chemo in the past or if there's more cancer in the brain. Lisa ...

New chemo for me

By tkjerico · New reply yesterday at 7:55 pm
5 replies
Anyone have any experiences with gemcitabine and its side effects ...

Inspiration 13 year survivor

By Cosmo72 · New reply yesterday at 7:28 pm
10 replies
This was on my FB this morning its a long video but well worth watching http://tinyurl.com/c3w8wy7 This is the story of a Lung Cancer Survivor named Wells Whitney. Wells is now a 13-year survivor (as ...

Looking for advice and arguments to get treatment started again

By Cillbill · New reply yesterday at 6:05 pm
8 replies
Did anyone of you IV survivors ever get told you were too weak for chemo and now would be time for hospice - and if yes, how did you alter the deadly prognosis and avoid the predicted horror scenario ...

Nutritionist a little to drastic?

By Whirl · New reply yesterday at 5:52 pm
10 replies
My mom saw a nutritionist for the first time and put my mom in a gluten free diet and prohibited her from any dairy. No eggs, no ice cream, no regular milk, no green vegetables! This is everything I have ...

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