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Lung Cancer | Last Active: Jan 22 8:18am | Replies (1013)

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@merpreb

@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?

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Thanks Merry. I'm a little 'google doctor on tv' (ha ha) and found these resources but thank you so much for your reply and sending these over. Trying to find someone out there who might have used this. Since it was originally used for bladder cancer I may go trolling over in bladder cancer for info. My husband isn't doing as well again. We're at least a year into this more than they thought he'd live but we're still working on trying to figure out what his cancer is and how to treat it. It's hard to want to do any treatment that might have serious side effects when we have no idea if it's even targeting the proper cancer, sigh.
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Hi @merpreb and @cindylb,

I was just reading the posts about your husband's unknown cancer, Cindy. I can only imagine how frustrating that must be to know that it is there but not to know what type it is. In Merry's post, she mentioned immunotherapy. There is a member of Connect,(@shortshot80) Nancy, who has been using immunotherapy for quite a while for lung cancer and it has worked well for her. I'm not sure if she will respond to this discussion as she has been dealing with some other health problems lately. I've known of others who have used it for metastasized breast cancer with good results as well.

Keep us posted, Cindy, on your husband's treatment.