Hi all, I was wondering is someone knows someone who has survived NONSMALL LUNG CANCER. Any treatment choices?

Question

Important!!! A collegue of mine would like to know. Her son has lung cancer

Answer 1

This will help.

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Answer 2

Nonsmall lung cancer can be hard to cure. Everyone I know who has had it has died from it. Her son may have about a year left. But whatever you do don't tell your friend this. Sounds like she already knows. When people find out bad news they go through various steps. The first step is denial, the second is bargaining, the third is anger and the last is acceptance. Just be there for your friend, but don't venture any medical advice and pretend that you just don't know anything. She will need a good friend and you don't want to giver her false hope. Let her find out the bad news on her own, but I have the feeling she aready knows. You have a good opportunity to be there for her for support. Just listen and be willing to listen, that is what she really needs -- to let it all out, she isn't really expecting an answer and giving her any sort of false hope will make things worse for her in the long run.

Answer 3

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer is an aggressive cancer of the lung that is curable if it can be removed in its entirety by surgery. Depending on the size of the tumor, whether lymph nodes are involved, the risks of a cancer recurrence may be high or low. For many types of NSCLC, even after complete surgical resection, adjuvant chemotherapy is important to help reduce the chances of a relapse.

If the cancer has metastasized or is unresectable, chemotherapy and possibly radiation maybe treatment options. However, the cure rate at that point would be low. It's important that proper staging of the patients be done and treatment options discussed with an oncologist.

Answer 4

Caught early enough, many people survive small cell bronchogenic cancer, if they stop smoking. It is one of the more common lung cancers and oncologists have lots of experience and data to support the treatment choices they make.

Best wishes to your friend's son.

Answer 5

omg This is bad my mum was diagnosed with this and she only lived 12 weeks. I will keep my fingers cross good luck (but it was found to late in my mother)