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    Time for My Pick-Me-Up

    in SCLC GROUP

    Posted

    Jen-

    My wife Bev is almost 2 years out of treatment for SCLC.She's been NED the entire time.

    That being said, it seems you always have to have one eye on the disease. I've got a feeling it's always going to be that way and we just have to adjust.

    Despite her success, I'm still worried sick about it every day.

    You just have to believe that your Dad is one of the lucky ones.

    I wish we all were.

    Kim

    Still grieving an old wound.

    in GRIEF

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    Pat, Nick et al-

    You ARE the LCSC. When I see your name, I read what you have to say.

    You're viewpoints have been nothing but supportive, even in the midst of your own pain.

    You may not have the LC, but you are the SC.

    Strange, didn't the last blow-up occur when Katie wasn't around?

    resection for SCLC!

    in SCLC GROUP

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    My wife was resected because her tumor was so small that was the only way they could biopsy it. When it appeared to be a carcinoid tumor, the surgeon opted to do a lobectomy. It later was diagnosed as Small Cell. We've always felt that was one of the key reasons she's had such a good response to the treatments.

    To screen or not to screen?

    in LUNG CANCER IN THE NEWS

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    Finding a nodule usually triggers a cascade of interventions, starting with a biopsy, which can cause infection, scarring and a collapsed lung. A cancer diagnosis typically results in surgery, often followed by chemotherapy or radiation or both. Doctors have no accurate way of determining which tumors are fast-growing and aggressive and which grow so slowly that patients are likely to die with and not of them, as with some types of prostate cancer.

    This paragraph of apparent "Cons" mystifies me.

    Are there many people with nodules that wish they didn't know about them?

    The second sentence is simply a statement of fact.

    Third, I don't think that there are many lung cancers that are growing so slowly that they're irrelevant.

    It's a no-brainer for me.

    I believe my wife is alive today as a direct result of Dr. Claudia Henschke's pioneering.

    Chemo Brain

    in LUNG CANCER IN THE NEWS

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    Chemo-Brain Lasts Years

    Chemo has long-term impact on brain function -study

    Oct. 5, 2006— - WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Chemotherapy causes changes in the brain's metabolism and blood flow that can last as long as 10 years, a discovery that may explain the mental fog and confusion that affect many cancer survivors, researchers said on Thursday.

    The researchers, from the University of California, Los Angeles, found that women who had undergone chemotherapy five to 10 years earlier had lower metabolism in a key region of the frontal cortex.

    Women treated with chemotherapy also showed a spike in blood flow to the frontal cortex and cerebellum while performing memory tests, indicating a rapid jump in activity level, the researchers said in a statement about their study.

    "The same area of the frontal lobe that showed lower resting metabolism displayed a substantial leap in activity when the patients were performing the memory exercise," said Daniel Silverman, the UCLA associate professor who led the study.

    "In effect, these women's brains were working harder than the control subjects' to recall the same information," he said in a statement.

    Experts estimate at least 25 percent of chemotherapy patients are affected by symptoms of confusion, so-called chemo brain, and a recent study by the University of Minnesota reported an 82 percent rate, the statement said.

    "People with 'chemo brain' often can't focus, remember things or multitask the way they did before chemotherapy," Silverman said. "Our study demonstrates for the first time that patients suffering from these cognitive symptoms have specific alterations in brain metabolism."

    The study, published on Thursday in the online edition of Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, tested 21 women who had surgery to remove breast tumors, 16 of whom had received chemotherapy and five who had not.

    The researchers used positron emission tomography scans to compare the brain function of the women. They also compared the scans with those of 13 women who had not had breast cancer or chemotherapy.

    Positron emission tomography creates an image of sections of the body using a special camera that follows the progress of an injected radioactive tracer.

    Researchers used the scans to examine the women's resting brain metabolism as well as the blood flow to their brains as they did a short-term memory exercise.

    Silverman said the findings suggested PET scans could be used to monitor the effects of chemotherapy on brain metabolism. Since the scans already are used to monitor patients for tumor response to therapy, the additional tests would be easy to add, he said.

    Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, with some 211,000 new cases diagnosed each year, the statement said.

    REUTERS@ Reut22:50 10-04-0610-05-2006 02:50UTC / (RE.ny-reu1.am-nyny-inwcp01) /

    Copyright © 2006 ABC News Internet Ventures

    Lucie Fly Wood

    in GRIEF

    Posted

    Don,

    So sorry to hear this. Our deepest condolences to you.

    Kim & Bev

    Excerpt from "Healing" by Todd Rundgren

    Where you are going

    you cannot take your body

    You are on a journey,

    the baggage is too heavy

    You can leave your legs behind you,

    you will learn to fly

    You can leave your arms behind you,

    you will touch the sky

    You can leave your head behind you,

    you are thought itself

    You can leave the rest behind you,

    you are breath itself

    Hope this gives hope

    in SCLC GROUP

    Posted

    We are always glad to hear good news like this!

    My wife, Bev, was lucky to have a lobectomy on the day she was biopsied. It turned out to be SCLC.She completed her chemo, radiation and PCI and has been NED every scan since, 2 years!

    Your 4 years is inspiring!

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