Hi
I found this site a couple of weeks ago, but wasn't sure what I wanted to say. My Mom, my best friend, was diagnosed w/ SCLC limited stages in November of 2002, my son (her first grandchild) wasn't even 3 months old. They started her on VP16 & cisplatin, she did that I believe 4 times, maybe 5 and the next time she went in, they told her it wasn't shrinking the tumor anymore and so they started topotecan, a couple of weeks after that she started getting really short of breath went in for blood work and found out she was anemic, they gave her procrit but it didn't seem to help, she went in for a chest xray and found out the top lobe of her left lung had collapsed. Basically the new drug didn't do anything and the tumor grew, she's doing radiation now, she's going on her second week but so far it hasn't done anything, does anyone know if it usually takes a while? I went to www.blochcancer.org andfound out about M.D. Anderson. Has anyone heard anything about it? Have to go (crying baby) will write more later. You are all in my prayers.