pahuntnwidow
New User
6 posts since January 10th, 2004
New User
6 posts since January 10th, 2004
pahuntnwidow's posts
Hi, some of those symptoms sound like lung cancer, but until your father is diagnosed don't research too much. My husband was diagnosed with lung cancer 2002. And what you might read on the internet can be frightening. Scaring on the lung could be from pneumonia. Just listen to the doctors and ask lots of questions!! Make notes befo... more
Hi, I am responding to your message. My husband has lung cancer, tumor in the right lung and has nodles as well. So far liver is clean. He too is on taxiter, he also has a plureual effusion, which in december 2003 they put a cathiter/drain tube in his right side so that we can drain him from home. Its a newer procedure that has been out... more
I will pray for you that it isn't cancer. Keep the faith.
Hi, does anyone or has anyone ever heard of a lung cancer patient having their plura removed and their lung hosed or packed down with chemo to encase the tumor? Our oncologist has told us only 10 people in the usa have had this done, its experimental. They do this procedure when the plura has plural effusion that they cannot control. This... more
Hi, my husband was diagnosed with stage iiib adnocarcenoma 6/2002. We have been thru alot over the past 18 mths. He went thru a major dose of chemo of carboplatnum/taxol. Then he had a break and underwent radiation/chemo (carboplatnum) this past summer 2003. He has developed a right plural effusion (meaning his plura is filling up with fl... more
My husband was diagnosed 6/2002 with adnocarcenoma stage iiib - he is a 36 yr non smoker. We have undergone 8 cycles of carboplatnim/taxol -- he underwent carbo platnim this past summer 2003 with radiation therapy, which in our option did more harm than good. He developed a right plural effusion again, this time it has gotten bad. The right ... more
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