Living with Lung CancerThis section is a place to share stories about Living with Lung Cancer Below are entries of those who have already shared their stories. We hope that you find their experiences helpful to your own situation. You may also Help others by sharing your story. To quickly access health information from your website's browser, download my father and lung cancer my father has lung cancer. he has stage 3b lung cancer and is doing chemotherapy right now. at the first pet scan, 1/3 of his lung was cancer filled, one limph node had a 3cm cancer, and one limph node had a 5.9cm cancer. these conditions are very extreme and it would be hard for anybody to get through these. but his lung capacity is good and he is in good health for a 59 year old man. he has chemotherapy once every three weeks. after his first three chemptherapys, he took a PET scan to see if his cancer had improved. the cancer in his lungs were all gone. the limph node with 3cm cancer was gone. the limph node with 5.9 cm cancer was reduced to 2.9cm. he is still taking chemotherapy. during the first 5 chemotherapys, his white blood cell count and his hemoglobin was completely normal. this week it has gone down but then it went back up and he just took his 6th chemotherapy this week. he will take his 7th one in another 3 weeks and then they will do a PET scan and see if he needs radiation or not. it looks good but i want to know what the doctors think? he is a 59 year old white male who has smoked for a long time but runs every morning and works out constintly. Comments
April 2007
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