My husband has stage IV lung cancer he had a tumor and they performed a wedge surgery a year and a half ago a year later a petscan revealed several lymph nodes that were confirmed to be cancerous. He underwent radiation treatment but fluid built up in his chest cavity. They stopped the radiation and started chemo and immunotherapy. He had to have the fluid drained twice in 2 weeks with a liter of fluid each time. It was confirmed the fluid was cancerous but not really sure where it came from??? The chemo infusion seemed to improve the fluid build up but after 4 treatments they stopped the carboplaxin and 6 weeks later the fluid came back even worse. They removed 2 1/2 liters and 3 days later we were in the ER because he couldn’t breathe. They recommended having the plurex catheter be put in and they sent bloodwork off to do a liquid biopsy to see if he is a candidate for Tagrisso. Will have the results in about a week. They have stopped any further chemo and immunotherapy treatments for now until they get the results back.
Has anyone had the fluid go away with Tagrisso ? Just trying to figure out where we go from here???
