Hi there. My mum was just diagnosed with lung cancer, which looks like total misunderstanding, and we're all in denial stage. There's anger, despair, misery, misbelieving, all mixed up together. Unfortunately, doctors say it's true. Now she's in hospital...
Hi, so my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer yesterday. Diagnosis is from a recent CT scan as they couldn't do a biopsy due to not being in great health (COPD). So type of lung cancer is unknown. They have said that she won't be offered any...
Seeing specialist today to find out my scan result finger's crossed.
Hello there. I'm new to the forum and not really sure what I'm looking for but maybe just talking with others could be informative. Hopefully I'm going to collect my dad from the hospital this afternoon. We've recently (this week) found out that dad has...
hello everyone i had previously been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, now stage 4 lung cancer. The council need to do work on my property. this will mean me being decanted. my Gp and oncologist don’t want me to return back to the property. both...
My best friend 45 years old has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung, which has spread to her brain, both lungs and adrenal gland, she currently is getting immunotherapy every 3 weeks, due to get her 3rd dose on Tuesday. She is literally sleeping all day...
Hi All, My mum has stage 4 terminal metastatic lung cancer and has been receiving immunotherapy every 3 weeks since March. She has had 2 CT scans that are showing the cancer is being controlled (we know it can't be cured). Mum was due a session of...
is there a reason that some people have immunotherapy every 3 weeks as opposed to every 6 weeks ?
Hi all ,I haven't posted for a while . trying to get my head around this bad news . had my yearly CT scan may. felt ok only worry I was not walking straight right leg stiff. The result of my scan it was back in both lungs and 2 lymph nodes in the middle...
Had 3 cycles of Chemo & then a scan. Told that things are going "better than expected", 60% plus size reduction, so advised to have 3 more cycles of Chemo before commencing Radiotherapy to get additional reduction. I'm now about to start the last...
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