SteveR

@Karen_L MRI = no brain mets. CT and full body bone scan show no signs of disease. My metastesese was limited to 1 location after 4 years. Not a typical case.

@Karen_L Why do you think so?

Thanks. To answer your questions the only treatment I had was radiation to my hip this past December. My oncologist wants to to undergo chemo and keytruda as a preventative measure. Lytic lesion was the lung cancer. It took 4 years to present itself. No other mets at all thank G-d.

Was diagnosed with stage 1a NSCLC in December 2018. Had a lobectomy with no further treatment. Fast fwd to June 22 when I had a pain in my hip that appeared very suddenly. Orthopedic doc said it was a soft tissue injury. CT however revealed a lytic lesion. In January my pelvis fractured due to the lesion. My pelvis was stabilized and the lesion was removed. Follow up scans indicate NED. 1 oncologist wants me to begin systemic therapy. Another says to wait. I'm not quite sure what to do. Targeted therapy is no available. Physicians keep telling me it's treated like a chronic disease. What does that mean. I'm only 55 years old. I want to live a long life. Is that possible? Thanks in advance!