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@sanyogita15, I'm glad to hear that your NGS testing came back, and that result can now help to guide your care. I'm not an expert or a medical professional. Combining targeted therapies with chemo and/or radiation seems to be more common now, especially for early stage cancers. There is a risk that the targeted therapy won't be a good match for your specific EGFR mutation, in that case you would likely be having chemo. Be sure to get all of your questions answered from the doctors. It's a difficult decision when they are suggesting such different treatment plans.
Also, remember that the prognosis statistics are not your specific story. Many of us are outliving our initial prognosis. I have the ALK mutation (stage 4), and I just celebrated 4 years.

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Hi@lls8000 : So happy to hear that you are in the process of conquering
cancer for last 4 years. More power to you. I had consulted a doc who said
chemo not required and you can go for tagrisso targeted therapy as you have
the EGFR mutation. But in India tagrisso is very expensive and not quite
affordable. But the primary doctor where we did the surgery has suggested
chemo first and later on targeted therapy. We still need to meet him and
talk about targeted this week. The chemo would start only after 1 month of
surgery. So, by last week of this month my chemo will start. Can you throw
some light on your chemo experience? What to expect and how to prepare for
it.