Thank you very much for the reply and the encouragement.
My friend was really pleased about the efforts at LUNGevity.
She sent me this report from her mothers treatment process.
Please have a look as some technical, Medical terms really confuse me a lot.
MESSAGE FROM MY FRIEND
In July 24, 2013, my mum was diagnosed with multiple intracranial metastases.
Chest CT: left dorsal segment lesions
In August 5, 2013,she had stereotactic biopsy and head gamma knife treatment
Pathology: poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma
diagnosis: the forth phase of left lung adenocarcinoma with brain metastases,
EGFR gene mutations
after surgery,she took IRESSA for 6 months.
In August 13, 2013,she had Gamma Knife treatment of pulmonary.
(surgery in detail as follows: one lesion, 55% isodose curves, dose: 4.0Gy * 11f)
In September 5, 2013,she had whole brain radiotherapy :200cGy/f, 5f/w, DT 3600cGy.
In May 5, 2014, head enhanced MRI: multiple metastases can be found in her fourth periventricular and leptomeningeal. some of the lesions in cerebral parenchyma become bigger, some become smaller.
In May 20, 2014 and June 24, 2014. she had chemotherapy: Gemcitabine & carboplatin
In July 1st,2014, head enhanced MRI: multiple enhanced nodules can be seen in bilateral cerebral hemispheres(diameter : less than 10mm). around some lesions,there is some tissue edema signal.one bigger lesion is inside of the right frontal lobe. abnormal enhancement can be seen in cerebellar hemispheres and bilateral frontal and temporal lobe leptomeningeal . The choroid fissure has long T1&T2 hyperintenseno signal(size: 12mm). No midline shift.
Pathology Report:
date: July 4th ,2014
diagnosis: Lung adenocarcinoma metastasis to the brain
gene mutation:Exon-19M1(gene deletion), Exon-19M2(gene deletion), Exon-20 T790M
she is now in confusion, often gives irrelevant answers. eating and sleepling are ok, normal excretion.
Annexure 2:
My friend's mother she is 45 years old. She now uses tarceva and she feels a little better
Her mum is going to try another method
the gonna draw some blood from the patient, then kill the tumor cells in the blood. and culture the the cells in the blood which can kill the tumor cells, then inject the blood back to the patient to strengthen her immune system
and she wants to know how is the result?
did anyone know or they used this method?
her father wants to know about this too.
My Friend is Kate and her email is: 1506712249@qq.com
she thanked all who are trying to help her at LUNGevity.