Hi, my 34 year old daughter was diagnosed w/ stage 4 non small cell lung cancer 4/15/17. She is the mother of a two year old son and so I know how desperate you are. By the time they found it (she went to ER with pain in her head that worse than childbirth by far) it had spread to her brain and some in her spine. Kaiser has performed radiation on her brain with great results, the tumors are shrinking and no new ones have shown up. My really smart niece with a phd who studied lung cancer was quick to suggest a second opinion with Stanford in CA. This may have just saved my daughter, because for the lungs Kaiser was only going to do Keytruda and Dr. Weakly at Stanford suggested also doing chemo. After the brain radiation, she did 4 rounds of both the Keytruda and two chemos at the same time, three weeks apart. Now the chemo is done and she will only be doing the Keytruda every three weeks for the next two years. Her scan the other day shows 90% disease free and I can't tell you how elated we all are. I'm just now getting brave enough to get on these forums and read more about the folks who have this so that I can help my daughter. Does anyone else freak out when they watch their loved one eat sugary foods when I keep reading in books that the sugar feeds the cancer? I just gave her a hard time for it and now feel horrible. And I know that being really tired is normal, but do I try to encourage her to do any exercise? Do I let her recover for a while before pushing her? I know...she's an adult...but still my baby.
