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1 yr with clean scans and can't each of you enough. Posting and chatting on here was helpful. Still to this day i truely don't understand everything like some of you. When I find a job, i'll throw a few bucks in the kitty, you are a great bunch!!

Found that 2 table spoons of raw honey worked... Radiation is behind me now and at home until Dec 13th.

Good day all. 3rd week of treatment and the radiation is getting the better part of my throat. i have 2 more weeks of radiation and my throat is toast now very hard to eat and drink. I radaition 5 days a week in the upper chest. Chemo so far is a walk in the park but radiation is taking it's toll on me. i still eat but getting very difficult.

I am ding well with this chemo and radiation... THe preasure is gone and i no longer feel this tumor. had radiation 3X and chemo once and so far so good. no side effects yet but expect to experiance some sooner or later. Today i feel better than i have in months! A question to you find MOds? Do i need to stat posting in a different topic area? THis one is getting long.

Thanks... Ok this is what the treatment is. I don't know if it's the right or wrong one... I only know i have to do something. So here it is IV Chemptherapy once a week Agent Carboplatin (paraplatin) paclitaxel (Taxol) Radiation: 15 min's a day 5 days Tomo Therapy Jump on this coaster Monday 130.

On Monday i start treatment. 8 weeks of radiation everyday 15 min's and one day of chemo and then 4 weeks of only chemo

Thank each of you i have learn a ton in a short time. Time to strap in this roller coaster. Pretty sure Treatment is starting 10-1 Hands in the air, smile on my face lets get this going!! Not asking question just doings what they ask. I don't know if this is the right place or not!! It's all a gut call. Cancer treatmet places are the way to go to me. One stop shop, with all the tools under one roof...

First off Thanks for all the prayers and support it does help! Back home from Tulsa OK and had that Biposy and should know the results tomarrow. In 3 days i had another CT, PET, MRI and a CT Biopsy! This place is like an assembly line!! I am on the fast track for sure. I'll go back on Monday and start to fight this nasty cancer!

OK, This cancer place in Tulsa has got my insurance approved and they cover the flights.. Yes flights as Susan is coming with. I finally have that warm fussy feeling something will get done. Canceled all my other appointments with the local doc's. Looking forward to Monday... Love this forum!! you all are great.

Monday 9-20 i will be in Tulsa for a week with Susan. No more waiting on these local Doc's. One stop shop as they have everything on site and a schedule in place. Step up or get out the hell out of my way as i want to win this fight!! Thank you all for the support and prayers...

OK they can't operate on it. they wanted to do another CT for what i do know! 9-28 2 more weeks. Hell cut into me and lets get this game going... Feel like a hot potato getting passed around. stopping in to help make car payments. Still don't know what type or stage! I can say pot oil pills work on the pain... Pure oil not something made in a lab.... Thank you Canadain compassion center.

I will go watch Ryan race his BMX bike and then Packing up the dirt bikes and go riding this weekend. You should see Ryan ride he floats across the track... For yrs we traveled all over the US BMX racing and miss it. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=100995636601857&saved On a dirt bike well he's not so graceful LOL.... Putting all this in a away and play with my kid. Did the PET scan and still no info yet. Maybe another office visit so i can help pay for the Benz out front.... Doc called and really didn't offer any solid info. It appears to be localized and some limp nods light up. he wants to do a sugicial biopsy. I did ask why not just go in and take it. His response was thats up to the surgeon! he is dancing around and careful with his words!! Hate that but it is what is it on to the next guy.

This pulmonary guy was a waste of time! Done with all these's over paid P/C mice!! Man up and tell me something, you do this for a living don't you! Sorry, this is just a merry go round in the middle of Elementy school yard. He can't reach the area thru my throat! Then use a knife dumb *ss dont schedule a lung test on 9-20! Didn't anwser a single question, just circle jerk repies and i paid for this! 4 months of this pain and discomfort plus no sleep... MAybe this PET in the morning will bring out a real Doc and talk with me. MAd as hell waiting a week for nothing, he got paid is all.

OK are there any other question i'd want to ask? 1. Is it small cell or non-small cell cancer? 2. Is it squamous or adenocardinoma. There can be other kinds of cancer too. You want to know what "kind" of cancer you have. 3. What stage is it? Stage I means it was caught very early. Stage II as well. It's likely operable and removable. Stage III and Stage IV, means it has spread beyond the chest into lymph nodes and possibly other organs. Nervious as hell! Pulmonary doctor today at 4pm then 7am Friday for the PET and i am sure you'll be hearing from me after that. I have an interview on Monday 2pm for a new job... (no travel too!) Not sure how thats going to play out if i go under the knife! Talk about a juggling act.... A job would be helpful and give me something else to think about. Thank you all for the kind words and support. I'd like to reach out and give each of ya a hug. My wife of 29yrs Susan of will be getting on the board here soon. She has been great and worry about her a bit. She comes with me to fill out the paper work LOL...

Easy What did they do crack open your chest? surgey grr... This club isn't too much fun and scary.

Recce101 I have noted the questions from Michigan Judy. Thats exactly what i need is info, so i can make the best of this issue... Each of you all have helped ground me a bit. I just need to sit tight and wait on Pulmonary Doc vist on 9-9-10 Staying off the web on this issue was the best info! No more seaching the terms in that report as i really don't know what it is i have yet.... Thank you all for the info and insight it's priceless.

Wow Thanks for all the positive info. 9-9 is my next apointment and that is only to review the CT finding is my understanding. Quiting smoke for sure as i am motivated big time! Not a big smoker maybe a pack, don't drink, well did last night and finally went to sleep! Felt like hell this morning LOL... The job is gone and really not an issue as i took the Corbra. I am a Dot com boomer and have penny options of a publicly traded company, not a Millionare but ok for awhile... I have unintentionally jumped on the roller coaster ride of my life. Hands high in the air seat belt on! The only time you can get hurt from a roller coaster is if you get off in the middle of the ride.

Hello all. 50 yr old male smoker and navy vet. Worked as a pipe fitter on a 1942 dry dock... Not sure what to say here except my doctor told me i have lung cancer. We thought it was heart trouble as i had preasure in my chest. Did all the stress test and even the Radio stress test and knocked it out of the park... We then did more X rays and found one to be abnormal and then was sent to a CT. The doc ask for a CT and hold me. They did and then sent me back to the doc's office. Sat in a room and he came in and flatly said Eric you have lung cancer! The CT tech infromed him i had lung cancer. Today i got the CT pictures and the report. The report is french to me and maybe some of you can shead some light on it. Have not slept in 2 days wondering what this all means. 16 and 10 yr old boys and a wife of 29 yrs. Scary is an understatement. Quite my job since i traveled North America and setuping appoints was an issue. Health a family first so here i am lost in all this stuff. To many internet searches and thay only scared me more. Here is the CT report i found in the package i got today I ahave another appointment with a pulmonary PC on 9-9-10 CT chest wlth contrast HISTORY; Chest pain, enlargemenL of the aortic bulb COMPARISON: No priors. Techni-que: Conti-guous axial images f rom the thoracic inlet through the upper abdomen foflowing administration of IV contrast, 100 cc Isovue-300 FTNDINGS: There is a large rounded sofL tissue mass just superior and postertor to the aortic arch demonstrating peripheral hyperdensity and more central lower attenuation suggesting some central necrosis. This mass LLLgqDU!gD =A.4 ' cm AP X 4.L cm t ransverse X 3. B cm craniocaudal dimension and is most consistent with a primary pulmonary mallgnancy with abutment of the adjacent aortic arch. Several smafl adjacenL prevascular lymph nodes are noted. Visualized thyroid is norma]. No axillary or siqnificant hilar adenopathy. Heart size is normal. No pericardial effusion. The lungs demonstrate emphysematous changes most pronounced within the right apex where l-here is a nrominent bU]lOuS dj_SeaSe. No nl errral ef friStOn. * -Y- I/ruu! qr e! ! L 1 cm low attenuation lesion within the left hepatic lobe was consi-stent with a beniqn cvst. No adrena] mass. No worrisome lvtic or bl-asti-c osseous l-esron. IMPRESSION: J-. Emphysema with rounded sof E tjssue ma,ss aTong the posterosuperior margin of the aortic arch Tikely representing a primary puTmonary maTignancy with a few adjacent sma77 prevascular Tyrrrph nodes. PET CT can be obtained for further evaluation is indicated. 2. 1- cm 7ow attenuation Teft hepatic Tesion most consistent How can the say i have lung cancer just from a CT don't i need a biopsy?