jcawork Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 As you can imagine, I am terrified that I am now extensive w/ 2 brain mets. Can these be dealt w/ 100%, can we survive after this has occured? Your experience? Thanks, Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelliemacs Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 jen, my mom had 6 major and several minor brain mets. all were gone after 15 wbr treatments. yes they can be beat. Lance armstrong also had many brain mets. he is still alive and totally healthy. to expand on moms experiance. appointments went within 5 minutes. after a few weeks she did get tired but the steroids they put her on to combat the brain swelling made her appetite ravenous. she missed eating and having an appetite so this was a wonderful sign to us that it was working. she did loose her hair but the goal was to get rid of the brain mets. and that is what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Here is a list of SCLC clinical trials. There are others, but they may be harder to find. Call up Georgetown and Hopkins and the NCI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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