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catyroemer

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  1. I haven't heard the term PANCOAST TUMOR in our meeting with the oncologist...hopefully Friday will be informative of details.
  2. I guess my diagnosis was 'hidden' in the title -- NSCLC Stage IV met neck tumor, rib and patella bone hot spots. Also I have the chemo cocktail info: Avastin, Paclitaxel and Carboplatin. I've got a quarter-sized tumor on my upper right lung lobe, a tumor on my neck/spine at c-6 -- if it hadn't been for the pain of the neck tumor pressing on nerves going to my left shoulder, I don't know how long it would've taken for them to discover the cancer -- I have no other symptoms. Thank you for all your responses....any information on general stats on survival? 1 year, 2 years? less? more? I've got a bucket list that has lots of traveling and lots of fishing on it....any chance I'll get to do those things? Caty
  3. I was just diagnosed last week and am set for my first chemo treatment this Friday. I had a "stiff neck" since April...gradually got worse and had pain in neck, across left shoulder and down left arm. They did an MRI and found a torn rotator cuff (I drive a Cat 980G loader sometimes at work, and the steering/gear changing is left-handed). So that was my initial diagnosis. After showing up at the ER the next 2 weekends in excruciating pain as the muscle relaxers and anti-inflamatories were not touching the pain, the ER doc said he saw the MRI and I couldn't be having that much pain from the tear I have -- he told me to contact my PCP and tell him to MRI my neck...they did a neck MRI, a CT scan of my body torso to tip of my head and a full body bone scan....new diagnosis! I have no idea what to expect at my appointment tomorrow, but whatever it is, if the goal is to get rid of this pain and all the 'loopy drugs', then I'm game! I'm a 60-yr old woman who's retiring as soon as we can get movin
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