Cheri N Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I was diagnosed with Stage II one year ago. I have never smoked, worked with toxic substances or have a family history of cancer. I do have heart issues however. Fortunately I was able to have robotic surgery to remove the cancer. Upon analysis what was thought to be a lymph node turned out to be a second tumor and it also was removed. I underwent 30 radiation treatments and 3 chemo treatments. I was initially supposed to have 4 treatments however the chemo caused me to have serious fatigue. Because of my age, will be 75 in May, my oncologist didn’t recommend having the last treatment and started me on Tagresso, a targeted therapy. The main side effect is fatigue. I am grateful for the care that I am receiving from Stanford Health. Tom Galli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LouT Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Cheri, Welcome to our forums. Glad to see you, but sorry you need us. Please look around and also ask any questions you may have. As an aside we do have a forum dedicated to different treatments called "Immunotherapy" and it can be found here. Lou Tom Galli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Galli Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Cheri, Welcome here. I do hope your Targeted Therapy (Tagresso) continues to be effective. Stay the course. Tom LouT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen_L Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Hi Cheri, Welcome aboard, although I'm so sorry for your reasons for joining. That chemo and radiation fatigue is no joke, especially on top of recovery from surgery. I was not lucky enough to have surgery but I did have 30 radiation treatments and 6 concurrent sessions of chemo, followed by a disastrous attempt at immunology. Then I started on Tagrisso. It'll be two years for me this spring, and I plan on being around for much longer. Since you were ay Stanford, I assume they did biomarker testing? Welcome, Karen Tom Galli and LouT 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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