Lipi

My prayers are with you hopeful treatment will continue to be effective. i am in my third year of treatment and have been mostly doing ok some days are hard but overall pretty good.

Hoping your sister is doing better!

I didn't get my second scans until approximately four months after starting chemo. Now that I'm taking a break, they will re-scan me again, even though I just had it done about a month and a half ago, and the tumor(s) had not grown in the last set of scans. It never seems to be clear!

Hi Lipi. I see that you have elected to follow me. I was diagnosed w/stage IV endometrial cancer in July 2012. Doing well now. I see that you sister is the patient. I went through the whole hospice thing w/my Mom. She passed away 2 weeks ago. If there are no alternatives and you sister doesn't want to pursue treatment. My didn't have cancer (stroke w/lots of other issues). She wasn't eating well & refused meds & testing,so I got hospice involved. Glad I did. Even though Mom was in nursing home, the hospice team was there for HER alone. I hope your sister doesn't have to face that. I wish you both the best.

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Okay, nice to meet you, but you have me confused. What do you mean by "ident"? If you are talking about some of the genetic mutations, CAS 1 is the most knowledgeable person on here about mutations and lung cancer. And yes, targeted therapies are making significant progress. Mine is such a mutant mixture of 3 different cancer cell types, no one to my knowledge has tried to type it, but they might now as I just had half of my left lung taken out last week. If you are talking about the genetic mutations, look up CAS 1 on the general lung cancer page. She should be able to set you up with some good links.