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The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation

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Is our last option worth trying - pemetrexed/cistplatin and denosumab😞 desperate for advice

Please help. My mum diagnosed with adenocarcinoma may 2015. Inoperable so had concurrent chemo /radiotherapy with cistplatin and vinorelbine. Lung tumour...

Please help. My mum diagnosed with adenocarcinoma may 2015. Inoperable so had co...

•8 years ago

Keytruda

Has anyone been on the drug Keytruda? I was told by my consultant it could be a future option as it has been approved in the uk. Does anyone know if alectinib...

Has anyone been on the drug Keytruda? I was told by my consultant it could be a ...

•8 years ago

Lung Cancer Information Day - Glasgow 1st September

Hi Everyone, We are hosting a Lung Cancer Information Day in Glasgow 1st September, which offers support and information to people affected by lung cancer....

Hi Everyone, We are hosting a Lung Cancer Information Day in Glasgow 1st Septemb...

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Roy Castle•8 years ago

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chemotherapy post surgery

I've recently had my surgery for stage 2 NSCLC. It was initially staged as 2B but has been restaged at 2A following the surgery. I was also on a clinical trial...

I've recently had my surgery for stage 2 NSCLC. It was initially staged as 2B bu...

•8 years ago

Brachytherapy

Hi has anybody had brachytherapy for lung cancer?

Hi has anybody had brachytherapy for lung cancer?

•8 years ago

Thank you - Coventry Information Day

I would like to extend a big thank you to all who attended the Information day in Coventry on 20th July. We really value your support and appreciate all your...

I would like to extend a big thank you to all who attended the Information day i...

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Roy Castle•8 years ago

Good news from Hoggy

Hi everybody I saw the oncologist yesterday for my 3 monthly MRI scan results and the swelling in my brain has gone!. He doesnt know why it came in the first...

Hi everybody I saw the oncologist yesterday for my 3 monthly MRI scan results ...

•8 years ago

Looking for advice

Hi im new to this site. My mum has a tumer on her lung nd in the lymph nodes. She has just finished 12days of radiotherapy 3 a day. She is having trouble...

Hi im new to this site. My mum has a tumer on her lung nd in the lymph nodes. Sh...

•8 years ago

Mum's cancer is back

Hello all this is my first post. My mum was diagnosed with Lung Cancer last Nov, had a lobectomy in Jan, all good on first 3 month scan however 3 months later,...

Hello all this is my first post. My mum was diagnosed with Lung Cancer last Nov,...

•8 years ago

Crizotinib update

Hi everyone. Thought It was time for an update on how my husband Steve is doing on crizotinib. He started it last September and is still taking it. His...

Hi everyone. Thought It was time for an update on how my husband Steve is doing...

•8 years ago

10 months down the line

feeling angry and upset i posted last around ten months ago feels a lot longer my husband went to the doctors last september with pain in his shoulder,he was...

feeling angry and upset i posted last around ten months ago feels a lot longer m...

•8 years ago

travel

can anybody help ,wanting to travel abroad I am in my 3rd year of being clear and hubby is 12mths clear any idea about insurance thanksx

can anybody help ,wanting to travel abroad I am in my 3rd year of being clear a...

•8 years ago

Share Your Thoughts on Clinical Trials! Take Our Survey

Hello all! Patient Power’s Andrew Schorr will be speaking again before another major audience – this time in Boston on July 21st to heads of research at...

Hello all! Patient Power’s Andrew Schorr will be speaking again before another m...

•8 years ago

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European Lung Foundation survey: oxygen on flights

The European Lung Foundation would like to find out how to make air travel easier for people who require assistance with breathing, so that their lung...

The European Lung Foundation would like to find out how to make air travel easie...

•8 years ago

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I don't know how to feel

My mum was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer and a secondary brain mestases in February. She had been having tests for 4 months before I requested she have...

My mum was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer and a secondary brain mestases in...

•8 years ago

Recurrence

Just found out that th cancer is back in my husbands lung there thinking maybe take rest off lung away my husband is 72 will he manage with 1 lung as his also...

Just found out that th cancer is back in my husbands lung there thinking maybe t...

•8 years ago

New to this Hello everyone

Just discovered I have shadow on my lung awaiting more tests feeling lost as family history

Just discovered I have shadow on my lung awaiting more tests feeling lost as fam...

•8 years ago

Just discovered yesterday I have shadow on my lung

Hi new to this ,after weeks of feeling really tired breathless and loosing weight after chest x ray have four d shadow on lung few days ago feeling scared and...

Hi new to this ,after weeks of feeling really tired breathless and loosing weigh...

•8 years ago