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Hi Fay Answering your question! He was at this job for about a year (Construction Co.). After being hospitalized with pneumonia his primary doctor gave him temporary disability from Febrauary till the end of May. The second week of April he was laid off (the only one to my knowledge)... They told him that the Health Insurance will be good till the end of April and after that, he would have to get cobra. He is in his late's forty's so he can't get Medical/medicare (65 and older)... His doctor gave him permanent disability now... So we are applying for social security for him... I'm wondering why he got permanent disability, the doctors don't say much but I have suspicions that they might think this is terminal., I hope not... We really need to get more opinions but everything cost money:-( Thank you for your input...

My brother has lung cancer and he was highly exposed to asbestos. He used to smoke but quit in his late 20's. In the last 7 years he was highly exposed to asbestos daily... They say that it takes years for any symptoms to show up if you were exposed to asbestos BUT "if you are or were a smoker" you could develop asbestosis, mesothelioma or LC much earlier. The 2 combined makes you more suceptible. We are trying to find out if his cancer is related at all to the asbestos he was exposed to daily at his work. The info I have at home says that typically, asbestos-related malignancies, such as mesothelioma or lung cancer, do not usually appear until at least 15-20 years after exposure. Here is an informative link, click on it! http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:iuvJ ... s%3F&hl=en GOS BLESS!

GOD BLESS YOU ALL! "I HAVE BEEN SO SAD LATELY, SO STRESSED OUT... WE LOST OUR OLDER BROTHER IN OCTOBER 2003' FROM TERMINAL SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA AND NOW WE ARE DEALING WITH OUR YOUNGER BROTHER'S LUNG CANCER"...I'M SO GLAD THAT I FOUND THIS SITE. EVERYONE ONE OF YOU IS IN MY PRAYERS! Heal me, O Lord and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved; for thou art my praise. Jeremiah 17:14

WOW! Your husband is an incredible man! GOD bless his heart! Thank you so much for your wonderful words, I cannot tell you how blessed I feel to have found this site, you ALL are so wonderful! Thank you once again! PS: Your husband and family are in my prayers!

God bless! I'm new here on this site, but my brother was diagnosed with lung cancer in august 2004'. It makes me happy to read good news! "YOU WILL BE IN MY PRAYERS"

He is being treated at a cancer center near the city of Westminster (Orange County) He did radiation first along with acombo of 2 drugs (chemo) but they had to stopped that because his red and white cells were way too low and it took him a while to get back on his feet, it was hard for him to eat due to all the burning the radiation did to his throat... When he got better they started him on taxotere (every 3 weeks) he did 3 out of 6 treatments and developed pneumonia ( a bad case of it)... It's been a month now without any treatment and he still ahs fluid on his right lung where the primary tumor was... All I know is that is a non small cell tumor (inoperable) I believe it was attached to the heart, I will gather more info. The tumor has decreased as I said before significantly (the doctor was very happy about that) BUT...latest CT scan shows 3 nodules... Thank you so much for your help I will let him know about this injections... I don't think he is getting teh best treatment, it has taken the doctors like 2 weeks to decide whether or not they will remove the fluid, supposedly he will get that done sometime this week and hopefully they will start a new chemo to fight this monster! This is sucha a nightmare, he just got laid off too at teh WORST time in his life... Please keep him in your prayers... I will update with more info and I'M SO GLAD I FOUND YOU ALL! GOD BLESS YOU!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REPLYING TO MY MESSAGE. THIS IS THE HARDEST THING WE HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED, I AM HOPING THAT HE WILL BE ABLE TO GET TREATMENT SOON SINCE HE ALREADY HAVE 3 NEW NODULES SHOWING NOW ON HIS LEFT LUNG... THIS IS A GREAT SITE, I FEEL BLESSED TO HAVE FOUND YOU GUYS! YOU ALL ARE IN MY PRAYERS!

Hi everyone:-) This is my first time here. My brother was diagnosed with a primary non small cell tumor (inoperable) on his right lung. This tumor was the size of a small lemon and it was pressing on his heart. He received radiation, followed by chemo but due to his immune system being so low the treatment was interrupted. Eventually his doctor stared him on Taxotere, he only received 3 treatments (out of six) and he was hospitalized due to severe pneumonia. He is finally getting better (the primary tumor has reduced significantly in size) but unfortunately he still has a lot of fluid in his lung *pleural effusion" and the treatmnet once again came to a holt...He still ahs fluid in his right lung and blood count is still low. Now CT SCAN shows 3 new nodules on his left lung, 0.3 cm, 0.7cm and 0.5 cm suspicious of metastatic disease... Unfortunately at this time he can't get any chemo until the fluid is removed and his blood count goes up, they are saying that they will give him a stronger chemo... What are his chances?... We are trying to be optimistic but in the past he had the treatmnet stopped twice and we are afaraid that a stronger chemo will make him even more sick, he was diagnosed August 2004'. has anyone here has success with treatmnet after having mets to the otehr lung? PLEASE EMAIL ME and let me know what worked for you. GOD BLESS YOU ALL...I will be praying for you all!