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I wrote previously about my husband and thought I would put a header here about Avastin as someone that took it might give us info and the experiences they had with this drug.Thanks Toni

My name is Toni and my husband is Terry. We found out in aug that he has stage 4 lung cancer. Out of the blue. He is 57 and they thought he had pneumonia when we got home frm a camping trip. but turned out is was lung cancer. He has it in both lungs so we had radiation for three weeks. Then he got c-dif infection from antibiotic he had for pneumonia and that held up chemo for a few weeks. Now this week we had our first chemo. Terry has two nodes in his abdomen and some small cells now showing in his liver. The doc added Avastin to his two chemo drugs as it is supposed to benew for lung cancer after having good results with colon cancer. They told us it may add to his life and make him eel a lot better. I was wondering if anyone had this drug and how they did on it. We are fighting the whole way no way willhe give up. They have not given us a time line but we hope to go into a remission for a long time. Any others that have had this please let us know as it is all new to us. The Va hosital has been wonderful to him. they say it was most likely agent orange as he was a paratrooper in Vnam and did three tours jumoing into the jungles. Thanks for taking the time to read this and hopefully we can get some input from others ging thru this. Toni