Hi everyone
My 66 year old healthy beautiful dear mother was diagnosed with stage 3b lung cancer nsclc in September, she had no symptoms, never smoked and is healthy. It was in the centre of her lungs in lymph nodes and on right lung (7cm) and 1cm had spread to left lung. She started 30 cycles of radiotherapy and had two lots of chemotherapy during this time. She finished it on the 11th December. The consultant did an early scan to see what had happened (5 days after radiotherapy) he said it was early and it showed the cancer had not grown, think it was too early to determine the success of it and whether it had killed all the cancer cells. They did it early as they are going to start her on a pacific trial immunotherapy which is beneficial to people with moms type of cancer. Mom has struggled at the end, unable to swallow even water, they have been looking after her and we are so thankful she had private health insurance as the NHS said there was nothing they can do. I have told mom she will start getting better slowly and will be able to eat again, its been horrible seeing her going through this and not even being able to touch or be with her due to COVID. The location of the tumours meant that mom was not able to have surgery. They have not started immunotherapy yet due to mom not feeling great with her swallowing. I want mom to get better, I want moms cancer to have reduced in size (can this take time after the treatment to show as I assume its swollen as been having a lot of harsh treatment to it). Anyone's stories dealing with this type of cancer and having positive stories how they are still here enjoying life would be great. Wishing everyone good health. x
Hi,My dad who is 66 has 3B NSCLC too - he had a 9cm tumour on those central lymph nodes.
Dad had 4 sessions of chemo and immunotherapy and it shrunk to 6cm! He's now on immunotherapy - a double dose every 6 weeks...next scan in March.
Sending lots of love x
Sending prayers and good health wishes to your dad. I am glad to see that it has shrunk, I pray he has a full recovery. How long did it take until dad could swallow again after the treatment x