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Very ill

This is so hard to do the cancer is still gone. But I have emphysema they took the upper Left lobe out its been 7years.my lower left lung stopped working no...

This is so hard to do the cancer is still gone. But I have emphysema they took t...

•4 years ago

Everyone

Those messages were from all of you.You wrote beautiful replys too. You are all beautiful people you all mean alot to me. Love susiejo1948

Those messages were from all of you.You wrote beautiful replys too. You are all ...

•4 years ago

Beautiful

Susiejo,you are an inspiration even as you go through your extreme suffering. I think you have that"Secret Ability, " that so many of us strive for. You care...

Susiejo,you are an inspiration even as you go through your extreme suffering. I ...

•4 years ago

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Thank you all

Thank you to all of you who responded to my questions about radiation!

Thank you to all of you who responded to my questions about radiation!

•4 years ago

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Tips on comforting a loved one who was just diagnosed?

Hi all, My mother 59 and a lifelong smoker (although as of today she has quit for 11 days) has just been diagnosed with lung cancer. She is having further...

Hi all, My mother 59 and a lifelong smoker (although as of today she has quit fo...

•4 years ago

Question about SBRT

Hi everyone, I am meeting with the oncologist to discuss SBRT radiation therapy. Can anyone tell me about their experience with side effects due to this...

Hi everyone, I am meeting with the oncologist to discuss SBRT radiation therapy....

•4 years ago

How to manage?

Hi everyone hope that you are all enjoying the holidays regardless of anything going on in your life! Sometimes one has to forget the negative for a while, and...

Hi everyone hope that you are all enjoying the holidays regardless of anything g...

•4 years ago

Beepers7 follow up

Hello Friends I just completed my first round of 6 days chemo treatments. Capstan and Etoposide? All went well with few side effects so far. I will continue...

Hello Friends I just completed my first round of 6 days chemo treatments. Capst...

•4 years ago

Lung Cancer Living Room

Tonight: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from 5:30-7:30 pm PT Patient Roundtable/Holiday Celebration MODERATORS: Bonnie J. Addario, Co-Founder, Board Chair,...

Tonight: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from 5:30-7:30 pm PT Patient Roundtable/Ho...

Moderator•4 years ago

Update on Keytruda treatment

Hello there, So mum got her letter from the oncologist appointment finally and it explains in black and white her situation. I have a few queries... Her...

Hello there, So mum got her letter from the oncologist appointment finally and ...

•4 years ago

Radiation

I have 2.8 cm node middle upper chest and it’s a reoccurrence so my dr is going to see if it can be radiated and poof gone but if the radiation dr says no then...

I have 2.8 cm node middle upper chest and it’s a reoccurrence so my dr is going ...

•4 years ago

Cooling cap for reduced hair loss

Hi all - looking for advice on cooling caps. The hospital my dad will receive treatment (Docetaxel and Ramucirumab) at for stage IV NSCLC does not have...

Hi all - looking for advice on cooling caps. The hospital my dad will receive tr...

•4 years ago

2.8cm node

How would a 2.8cm right middle lobe anteromedial heterogeneous soft tissue pulmonary module usually be treated, it’s located where I had my lobe to my 2 years...

How would a 2.8cm right middle lobe anteromedial heterogeneous soft tissue pulmo...

•4 years ago

Getting PET scan results this Thursday

I am scared to death of these results. I will post the results after. Biopsy on 1 lymph node was negative and inconclusive on the second. Mom is being super...

I am scared to death of these results. I will post the results after. Biopsy on ...

Momjustdiagnosed

•4 years ago

Stage 3A surgery option

Starting my chemoradiation Monday. Was diagnosed in September 2019. Have had consultations from oncologist and two thorastic surgeons. Two are somewhat...

Starting my chemoradiation Monday. Was diagnosed in September 2019. Have had c...

•4 years ago

I have posted before. I have been diagnosed stage 3A. Starting chemoradiation Monday. Getting mixed recommendations on surger after rad?

Surgery stage 3a

Surgery stage 3a

•4 years ago

Can't get definitive diagnosis

After clean scans for 2 years, I began to feel ill in September and was diagnosed with pneumonia. I went through a short round of antibiotics and had a chest...

After clean scans for 2 years, I began to feel ill in September and was diagnose...

•4 years ago

moms pet scan update

Hey all, hope you had an amazing thanksgiving break! So we called in for PET scan results and the receptionist told me the doctor would call later. Oncologist...

Hey all, hope you had an amazing thanksgiving break! So we called in for PET sca...

•4 years ago

Been wanting to write this for awhile

I had my right upper lung lobe removed in May 2018 due to stage 1 NSCL cancer. The doctors here at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, NC didn’t feel I needed Chemo....

I had my right upper lung lobe removed in May 2018 due to stage 1 NSCL cancer. ...

•4 years ago

Good news after scan

Hi I had new scan November showing no signs of cancer I'm going on 3 and 1/2 years which is awesome the doctor wants me to take my gallbladder and my appendix...

Hi I had new scan November showing no signs of cancer I'm going on 3 and 1/2 yea...

•4 years ago

Additional flu shot

Happy Thanksgiving to all the members of the club no one elected to join. My wife and I had flu shots in early October and the Doc said that it would be wise...

Happy Thanksgiving to all the members of the club no one elected to join. My wi...

•4 years ago