Results from my doctor

[Valentina_22]

Hello everyone

Thank you all for your responses!I got my results today and unfortunately they said I have lung cancer and will be needing chemotherapy however they said I will need a stronger chemo because they are treating it as liver cancer that has migrated to my lungs. I wanted to ask if anyone else has had a stronger round of chemo and what that is. How long do they normally have it for. I am so upset by the news I was really hoping that it would be so rare for me to get it again but unfortunately that’s not the case. I suffer from very strong chest pain and back and shoulder and neck pain and feel breathless. But the chest pain is the worse does anyone else have these side effects and how do they treat it?

[sassassas]

Hi Valentina_22

I'm sorry to hear your news. It is always such a horrible shock.

Although this cancer is in your lungs, your doctors have said its actually liver cancer, . As you say, to get two different cancers is very rare, but to have one cancer that later moves to another part of the body is sadly much more common. You may want to consider joining the liver cancer group on this site - the people there will have more idea about the treatments used for liver than this one which is specifically for lung cancer.

Have you got a cancer nurse specialist? If so, please do contact him or her - they are there to support you and will be able to provide much more information about the specific chemo types, booklets and links to good websites with some detailed information about the drug and its side effects.It does sound scary to be told its a stronger chemo. Your doctors though will have taken your overall health into account when deciding which is the best treatment for you.

I hope your treatment starts very soon and you start feeling the benefit of it quickly.

xx

[Denzie Moderator Volunteer]

As previously mentioned, a liver cancer that metastasizes to the lung is still a liver cancer. It will respond to treatments for liver cancer.

I checked to see if there are liver cancer groups here and found you had already posted there. So glad you did as the best answers for you are going to come from them.

I send hope that this is swiftly resolved and your pain relieved.