Bee_hopeful

Dear Tom and Tom, thank you so much for your encouraging and informative responses! I really do hope, that there are only 3 brain mets, the information he got yesterday was a bit confusing. CT scan of the lung and body / ultrasoud will be performed on monday or tuesday, so we do not know yet, if there are other mets. He did a lot of research about precision radiation last night and so did I. Our aim is, that he gets this treatment. About my tag name… My dad is a statistician and he tends to see only the numbers. Median overall survival and so on. So I took the job to tell him, that HE is not the statistic but an individual and that HE can beat the statistic. Hope is the big sister of fear, so I try to be his big sister :). Thanks again and with best wishes Bee

Dear All, my Dad was diagnosed with stage IV SCLC in november 2020. He had chemotherapie in combination with immunotherapie (Tecentriq) and luckily had a subtotal remission in his PET-CT in march 2021. Until now, he gets Tecentriq every 3 weeks and is doing very well. Today he was diagnosed with 3 brain metastases on his routine MRI scan. He is so scared about what the metastasis and radiation therapy is gonna do to his brain function. Does anybody has experience with this, which he/she might share? Which sort of radiation therapy is the best? Would gamma knife be an option? Does he has the chance to get rid of the brainmetastases? Please excuse my english, I‘m writing from Germany. With all my best wishes for all of you Bee