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KatieR10381

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  1. Hello, My 59 year old Dad (never smoker) was diagnosed with Stage IV adenocarcinoma on June 11 of this year. He had been having neck pain since the holidays last year. When he didn't respond to arthritis treatments, his doctor ordered an MRI and saw lesions that looked malignant. Initially they thought it was a recurrence of prostate cancer that he had over five years ago. More scans revealed additional bone mets on his lower back, hip, and sternum, as well as a mass in his LUL. At at that point they still thought they might be dealing with prostate cancer, or maybe a lymphoma or myeloma. A biopsy of the met on his hip shocked us all when it came back as lung cancer. Since then, he has been tested positive for the EGFR mutation. At least one additional met (one 7mm and one shadow) have been found in his brain. He has undergone 10 rounds of palliative radiation to both his cervical spine and lower back, and started on Tarceva 10 days ago. His main symptom right now is residual stiffness in his neck (the radiation took care of much of the pain) and sciatica in his legs from the lower back met (still hoping the radiation will kick in on that). He's also dealing with side effects from both the radiation and Tarceva, as well as more minor side effects from multiple painkillers, etc. Right now we are just really really hoping that the Tarceva works!
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