How well does radation work on non-small cancer of the lung?

Question

No spreading anywhere else. We plan to take 6 weeks of radation plus a 3 hit round of chemo. Any thoughts? The goal is to shrink the tumor enough to remove only one lobe of the lung. We have tried 3 hits of chemo with no response.

Answer 1

I don't know everyone is an individual with different circumstances. Lung cancer is a tough one to beat, but I am sure there are people out there somewhere that have beat it. They advertise this Cancer Treatment Centers of America on TV.Maybe ask that question about it on yahoo answers and see if anyone has dealt with them. They sound like they do miracles, but that is an advertisement, so I don't know.....just make sure you have a good oncologist..

Answer 2

In 1990, I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma, stage 3-B, but I've survived. My doctors were great people, but they really couldn't tell me squat about cancer. During the year in treatment, I started learning about alternative medicine.

Here's what I've figured out--FIRST, somebody--probably from the AMA--is getting my answers deleted as 'not a question or an answer', because they don't want you to know about this. So if you want to keep this information, you need to copy it to a wordpad document quickly, before it disappears. Hopefully, they'll give up and stop that nonsense soon, but I wouldn't count on it. Now, here goes--

Cancer is caused by poor nutrition (including oxygen) which leads to a compromised immune system, and stressors. Stressors can be environmental, like heavy metals, food additives or pollution, or emotional or job stress.
Our bodies have 60 trillion--yes, trillion--cells, and there are always some mutating into cancer cells, but a healthy immune system kills them before they have a chance to get a foothold in the body.
It takes a LONG time, usually, or an exrtaordinary amount of stressors, to degrade the immune system to the point where it won't do its job, but once cancer has formed, it will generally spread rapidly.


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I know of people whose cancer has 'spontaneously remitted' (WENT AWAY for no known reason) after they went on a program of herbs and nutrition.

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Answer 3

Im a radiation therapist and see this a lot. Many advances have made remissions a great possibility with radiation. You also have to keep in mind the nutrition plays a huge role in a patients ability to fight the cancer and tolerate the radiation. A lot of the time, radiation can irritate the lining of the esophagus causing the patient to not eat. Ask for Magic Mouthwash (mixture of xylocaine, Maalox and something else) from your Rad Onc. This will help some. I just finished treating a guy with stage 4 and his shrank to almost nothing. Good luck!!

Answer 4

i have a husband that is taking radiation and is doing well i have also meet a lot of people with lung cancer in early stages and they take 30 rounds and are feeling great they found out the spot was gone

Answer 5

First of all i am not a doctor but a cancer survivor - get as much info on radiation as you can especially the side effects - make your own decision - it is your body

Answer 6

ihad 38 radiation treatment 8 IV treatments of chemo it shrunk it a little--- i took chemo pills tarceva and right away it started to disappear I AM IN REMISSION!!!!

Answer 7

I think this is the kind of thing you should be asking your consultant/GP.

Answer 8

Me think, THOU should ask your doctor!!! noone else is qualified to answer that ?????