Hello,
My husband was diagnosed in may this year with non small cell lung cancer. There's one mass, about an inch in diameter they say.
He had all the scans and tests and then he developed a collapsed lung (same lung as cancer) and treatment was delayed until that was normalised. About 4 weeks. He is starting treatment (chemo, radiotherapy and immunotherapy) next week. This week he has to go for a pre scan where they plot out in a marker pen where the treatment is needed. Or so we gather.
He's very concerned that it has been a long time since diagnosis.
Also we are baffled, the consultant mentioned something about every day for 8 hours a time at oncology clinic. Yet people who have had treatment day they never had to go everyday for 8 hours. We don't understand properly at the moment.
Any help or advice is so welcome. I'm sorry to be asking questions so early.
Debbie
Hello Debbie (Debs1958),
I don't know what chemo your husband is having, however I had cisplatin (some had carboplatin instead of this which I understand is similar) and vinorelbine several years ago for non small cell lung cancer.
I had to attend on two different days each cycle, one for cisplatin which took all day due to flushing through with water before and after administration of the chemo itself. The other day was for vinorelbine which took not much more than an hour each visit.
I'm afraid I don't know anything about radiotherapy for lung ancer as I didn't have that and immunotherapy wasn't available when I had my treatment, so I can't comment on either of these.
I do hope he gets on well with his treatment.
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