I just discovered Lungevity after a local article about by me and my lung cancer on Tuesday. Katie Brown posted on my Facebook fan page for Real Estate and also tracked by down via the writer of the story. I spoke with Katie over the phone on Friday after going to the Lungevity website and learning what the organization was all about. I am 48 years and was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer last May. After a month long headache, a brain tumor was discovered with a ct scan. The day before brain surgery was scheduled a body scan found the lung tumor. The biopsy the next day confirmed non small cell lung cancer.
I have had 5 radiation treatments for the original brain tumor. I had one radiation treatment for a very small brain tumor several months later. My chemo treatments started last September. I got a second opinion to confirm the original diagnosis and the had chemo treatments every 3 weeks through October.
My lung tumor had shrunk by 50 % after the 4 treatments and I was given the option of continuing the chemo or discontinuing chemo and getting rescanned in 3 months. I chose the latter. I got a pet ct scan last week and an brain MRI this week and will visted my doctors to review the scans next week.
I feel great and hope the results confirm we have things under control.
I wil paste a link or two with the article to this message.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2011 ... nav%7Chead
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2011/02/ ... c-rodgers/
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