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Hi everyone so the results were NSCLC STAGE 3 , 3 lymph nodes activated along windpipe , but no spread …. Sadly , I just missed out on it being operable though because of those blumming lymph’s …. so it looks like Chemo and radiotherapy combined or sequential...
Morning all , well just had the phone call to invite me in to the chest clinic Monday to review my results …. I know this waiting period has been the absolute worst time of my life but I’m absolutely terrified of hearing what they have to say , if there...
Lobectomy 10 months ago. Started on Carboplatin and Pemetrexed - stiil progressing. Want to change me to Docetaxel. Found comparison report on Jamaoncology but nothing about sequential treatment. Anyone been down this route or know where to find info...
Hi, I am in the process of a lung cancer diagnosis. I have to go for a biopsy this coming week. I have lung nodules in both lungs. 3 in the right lower lobe and 4 in the left lobe. I have Luous and other underlying conditions. I am really scared to...
Hi everyone So my Mum has been diagnosed after several tests. As a never smoked person it has certainly come as a great shock. She is 81 years old and on the surface of it being very brave. We are both only children and she is a widow so most things...
Hello I developed immunotherapy colitis after nearly 2 years of smoothly running treatment. Has anyone had any advice on diet and this. When in hospital the dietician said this type wasn't really effected by diet. Its just the diarrhoea is back to being...
I have been diagnosed with lung cancer in both lungs, I had a heart attack last October which i was unaware of at the time, it resulted in heart failure, i waited 7 months for an MRI which picked up cancer, i have 2.5 cms in lower left lobe and 4mm in...
I really need to say this out loud but don’t want to admit it to anyone close to me, so I hope you don’t mind me getting it off my chest here My journey is at the stage where a bronchoscopy confirmed a squamous cancer in my right lung, which has spread...
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Hi everyone! This is my first post here so hello! I’ve had some CT Scan results back and I’m really trying to get my head around them as my respiratory consultant wasn’t great at explaining what it exactly was and what it means. I’m the kind of person...
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