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A cold and Imfinzi immunotherapy

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Jul 17, 2019 | Replies (15)

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@cindylb

suea813 - Sorry to just barge in here on your conversation but I'm so glad I found you!! If you feel well enough and have time will you please share more with me about the immunotherapy treatment? My husband was diagnosed with a lung tumor (small) and spread to a lymph node back in February 2018. The pathology doesn't show up as a specific type of cancer (possibly lung, possibly GI). We've been scanning and testing and frankly waiting for the cancer to show up somewhere other than the lung. His diagnosis was Stage IV Terminal Cancer of 'unknown primary'. After 18 months the doctors now feel fairly confident this is a primary lung cancer (because there is no cancer anywhere else) but there are still serious questions. Anyway.........
At our visit with the doctors yesterday they suggested that he has a very small amount of PDL1 and that Iniinzi might work.....wondering how you felt during treatment and now and how it's worked for you? My husband would have to do radiation and chemo to qualify to use immunotherapy and he's opposed, but if we knew that the immunotherapy might not be so bad, I might be able to get him to do a bit of chemo and radiation to get to the immunotherapy.
Anything you can offer would be most appreciated!
Hugs and good wishes for your continued improvement!!

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I'd also like to bring @2onlow8 and @justapril into this discussion as they have some experience with taking IMFINZI® (durvalumab).

Cindy, I can understand your husband's reluctance to do chemo and radiation. It's not something one looks forward to. I can also understand your desire that he try everything possible. From what I understand according to this article (http://chemocare.com/chemotherapy/drug-info/durvalumab.aspx), durvalumab is used in people whose disease has not progressed following concurrent (given at the same time) platinum-based chemotherapy and radiation therapy. How many chemo/radiation treatments would he have to have?