Good morning, everyone My lovely mum was diagnosed 8 weeks ago with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, which had metastasize to her spine and peritoneal area. She had one high dose of radiotherapy and her first treatment of immunotherapy last Wednesday, she...
I’ve now had 5 palliative radiotherapy sessions and 4 chemo a blood transfusion due to anemia a head MRI thankfully clear. Am due an oncologist appointing on 6th October for a before and after comparison to see if treatments are helping at all becoming...
My hsband stopped immunotherapy in August as didnt work & started chemo just under 2 wks ago. On Sunday out the blue started going to the toilet non stop runs & feeling sick. Hes been in urgent care Marsden day unit yesterday on IV fluids & IV steroids...
I was diagnosed 4 and a half years ago with lung cancer and also had spread to lymph, and spine. I had Radiotherapy on my spine which blasted the tumour and 18 months of Chemo and Immunotherapy. I have just had my latest CT scan and the Doctor told me...
Hi. My partner is 74 and had been offered pneumonectomy. She's worried about lung term effects such as breathlessness with only one lung. Are there others out there with experience? We were expecting to be offered neoadjuvant treatment prior to surgery...
Hi All It is now one year on since I was diagnosed with NSCLC and I a way I was quite lucky. It might sound strange to say I was lucky but here is the deal. I was constantly contacted by the NHS Lung Foundation ( can’t recall the exact title ) so...
I had surgery in November 2023 for stage 4 CRC, I then had CAPOX chemo for 6 months from Jan 2024 until the end of June. My CT scans showed a nodule on my left lung but thus was downplayed and I was told it was likely from chest infection etc. The nodule...
I'm looking for a bit of reassurance. My husband is 58 years old and has never smoked, he has had exposure to asbestos through his work. He has had a cough for many years which was diagnosed as asthma, although the doctor is now saying it isnt asthma...
Finally have a diagnoses of what is happening in the lungs alongside my womb cancer (found at same time) - for the last 5 months they have assumed they were mets to the lungs but it is now confirmed as DIPNECH and two carcinoid lung tumors, after the...
After last weeks shock re keytruda not working for my husband. I rung the Marsden at 9am this morn & ask to speak to my husbands oncologist, whom hes had from the start & not the souless one from last week. I said I wanted to discuss last weeks appointment...
