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Living with lung cancer - Introduce yourself & come say hi
Lung Cancer | Last Active: Jan 22 8:18am | Replies (1013)Comment receiving replies
Good morning,
Does anyone here have any experience with the immunotherapy drug, Infinzi (Durvalumab)? It's been used in other types of cancer and about a year ago (I believe) was approved for lung cancer treatment. They are suggesting this drug for my husband who has been struggling for 18 months with a 'cancer of unknown primary' that presents only in his lung and lymph node (that really isn't the node where lung cancer spreads). It's been a mess of a gray area all this time but now the doctors feel they should proceed with lung cancer as the diagnosis.
The only information I can really find on this drug is from the drug manufacturer and of course that's going to be biased toward the positive....anyone used this or know of it and it's effects?
Thanks and Hugs to all!
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@cindylb, members are talking about IMFINZI® (durvalumab) in this discussion:
- A cold and Imfinzi immunotherapy https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/a-cold-and-infinnzi/
You may wish to post your question there and I'll bring in other members too.
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@cindylb- Good morning. Hi Cindy! How are you doing? This is what I found for you. I do not have any experience with immunotherapy so I can't help with that but I did find this: It's mostly used for bladder cancers but has recently been shown to help with lung cancer
http://chemocare.com/chemotherapy/drug-info/durvalumab.aspx
https://www.rxlist.com/imfinzi-side-effects-drug-center.htm
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/non-small-cell-lung-cancer/treating/immunotherapy.html
How is your dad doing?