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Cisplatin versus Carboplatin

This is my first post. Having had a lower right lobectomy in late December 2016, I am now 6 days into the first of four 3-week cycles of Vinorelbine and...

This is my first post. Having had a lower right lobectomy in late December 2016,...

•7 years ago

SCLC chemo then full brain radiotherapy

SCLC chemo then full brain radiotherapy My mum was diagnosed with advanced SCLC with piturity gland tumour and lesions to the brain August 2016. Mum's...

SCLC chemo then full brain radiotherapy My mum was diagnosed with advanced SCLC ...

•7 years ago

Raised calcium levels ?

Hi, Ive just had my 26 round of Pemertrexed maintance chemotherapy and the nurse has told me I have elevated calcium levels in my blood. The oncologist said it...

Hi, Ive just had my 26 round of Pemertrexed maintance chemotherapy and the nurse...

•7 years ago

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Went in for lung biopsy and came out having had cardiac arrest and stroke.

Hi there everyone. I am very upset as I went in hospital on the 14th of February this year and I went in for a needle biopsy where they just numb the area. For...

Hi there everyone. I am very upset as I went in hospital on the 14th of February...

•7 years ago

Coughing up blood for

I am having sever chest pain In my upper left lung..I can't twist or bend nothing..severe fever..now coughing up blood however my chest and my CT WERE BOTH...

I am having sever chest pain In my upper left lung..I can't twist or bend nothin...

•7 years ago

Tests & more tests

After finding a mass after a CT scan, the consultant says I have a swollen lymph node in my lungs & need a PET scan, biopsy, camera & full lung check, query...

After finding a mass after a CT scan, the consultant says I have a swollen lymph...

•7 years ago

Husband has small cell lung cancer

Hello all My husband is newly diagnosed with advanced small cell lung cancer which has metastasized into his liver and back. This we know from a CT scan and...

Hello all My husband is newly diagnosed with advanced small cell lung cancer whi...

•7 years ago

Nervous and anxious

Hi everyone After being off sick for 16 weeks, the time has come for me to consider returning back to work due to financial reasons. At the end of October last...

Hi everyone After being off sick for 16 weeks, the time has come for me to consi...

•7 years ago

Mum finally diagnosed, trying to be positive but feeling sad

Hello all, so after nearly 3 months of tests and scans my mum has been diagnosed with NSCLC (Adenocarcinoma) in her right lung and she is due to have a second...

Hello all, so after nearly 3 months of tests and scans my mum has been diagnosed...

•7 years ago

Nervous daddies girl

hi. Nervous about this. Doing this for my dad. He's 76 & not very good on computers. His story is he collapsed early January had chest x ray because I...

hi. Nervous about this. Doing this for my dad. He's 76 & not very good on comput...

•7 years ago

The Cancer Whisperer Book by Sophie Sabbage

I am just reading this book which is written by Sophie. She is EGFR positive and has stage 4 lung cancer. I am in a similar situation with ALK mutation. I...

I am just reading this book which is written by Sophie. She is EGFR positive and...

•7 years ago

lung cancer

hi I am a never smoker female age 81 fit and healthy just the normal little health niggles .very happily married 28 yrs .after having back pain in nov 2016...

hi I am a never smoker female age 81 fit and healthy just the normal little he...

•7 years ago

Lung Cancer Information Day Newcastle 27th March

Our Newcastle Lung Cancer Information Day takes place on Monday 27th March, 10am-3pm at Irwin Mitchell, Wellbar Central, 36 Gallowgate, Newcastle Upon Tyne,...

Our Newcastle Lung Cancer Information Day takes place on Monday 27th March, 10am...

•7 years ago

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Concerned - sorry for posting

Hi my name is Kay and I am petrified! Hello everyone I write this right now with a feeling that I really cannot continue anymore! In January 2016 I developed...

Hi my name is Kay and I am petrified! Hello everyone I write this right now with...

•7 years ago

So Scared

This is my first post and to be honest I feel a bit silly posting because having read most of the stories on here I as of yet have not received a diagnosis of...

This is my first post and to be honest I feel a bit silly posting because having...

•7 years ago

Small cell lung cancer

Hello I am curious to know if anyone last year was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer under the age of 30 males? My partner was diagnosed in August at the...

Hello I am curious to know if anyone last year was diagnosed with small cell lun...

•7 years ago

Thick White Mucous

Hello All My Mum (stage IV NSCLC) has been vomiting / bringing up thick white mucous almost every morning. They are like globules or clouds of frothy white and...

Hello All My Mum (stage IV NSCLC) has been vomiting / bringing up thick white mu...

•7 years ago

Mum stage 4

Hi all my mum has been diagnosed with stage 4 nsc and told she has months to live I'm so confused as apart from a small wheeze and very fatigued she seems fine...

Hi all my mum has been diagnosed with stage 4 nsc and told she has months to liv...

•7 years ago

Opioid patch fentanyl

My husband has lung cancer with metastasis to bones and has just been prescribed fentanyl patch. I am so worried about all the possible side effects. Are there...

My husband has lung cancer with metastasis to bones and has just been prescribed...

•7 years ago