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How has your type of lung cancer responded to treatment?

FtB_Travis profile imageFtB_Travis69 Voters

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cancompany profile image
cancompany

just started chemo

Alexandra_JGW profile image
Alexandra_JGW

My partner lost his life to small cell

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Glynn2890 in reply to Alexandra_JGW

Me too 🙏🏻

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Grannt67

My wife sadly lost her struggle with cancer on the 19th February.

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Suzana357

My metas progressed after first line cisplatina docitaxel chemo. They changed to cisplatina gemzar, but after the very first infusion I got a horrible response-flu like symptoms, severe intoxication, fever and a started coughing. I stopped and don't know what to do. Maybe I'll have one of those tests to determine what my ALK, PD,other gene mutations are and what possible target or imuno therapy I can have. I'm very desperate...

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Marbleem in reply to Suzana357

Oh my so sorry!!! I have squamous lung cancer and my oncologist.hematologist ordered molecular testing right from the beginning. Without know how to treat your cancer they can be doing more harm than good. Prayers. I am very nervous as well it's gonna be about a total time of 2 months from first spotted on xray to getting the molecular testing results.

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Spainy

To the administrator of this poll, would you please put in a response here that spells out what the different color responses are? On my devices I just see abbreviation "My lung cancer has..." next to blue, red, orange, green. So, I can't see what the results and percentages mean.

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FtB_Travis in reply to Spainy

If you hover over or click/tap each part of the pie graph, it should have the complete description of each answer. Does that work on your device?

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Spainy in reply to FtB_Travis

Sorry it does not work on my mobile devices.

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FtB_Travis in reply to Spainy

Here are the results:

My lung cancer has been treated, but is still present: 41.5%

My lung cancer has fully responded to treatment: 30.8%

My lung cancer has come back after being treated: 15.4%

My lung cancer has not been treated at all: 4.6%

Other (see comments for responses): 4.6%

I am not certain what is happening with my lung cancer: 3.1%

Spainy profile image
Spainy in reply to FtB_Travis

Thank you Travis. I do wonder if in the reply "My lung cancer has not been treated at all" by "treatment" you mean strictly radiation and chemo and NOT surgery. I responded with that answer however my "treatment" so far has been just surgery so I did not consider surgery as a treatment. So far the surgery has removed my lung cancer.

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Alexandra_JGW

Why is no one doing more for small cell? There is so much time and money being spent on non small cell but I hardly see research for small cell?

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AnnieL67

Only 4 months out.

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VanessaEmpire

My mom's lung cancer became more agressive from the treatment- it spread to her lungs (additional tumors), liver and spleen after two rounds of Carboplatin and Pemetrexin Chemo Therapy Drugs. The Gamma Knife is 12 weeks out and seems to be successfule with the original 2 lesions. We will get another imaging done on Tuesday, so I will let you know.

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FtB_Peggy

Vanessa, thank you for the update. I hope we hear more from you very soon!