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I was diagnosed in Jan 2019 with stage 4 mucinous adenocarcinomas which has metastized to the brain. I have completed 10 treatment sessions of whole brain radiation which had no impact on existing spots. The 2nd course of action was focused radiation on 3 areas of the brain which I completed 2 weeks ago. In 2 more weeks an MRI will be fine to see if it was effective. Has anyone had more than 2 series of radiation on the brain? Because if the brain involvement I’m not a good candidate for chemo
Thank you for whatever info you can share
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@karen43- Good morning and welcome to Mayo Connect. I am a 22 year lung cancer survivor. I am very sorry that the treatment chosen for your cancer has not been successful so far. I have had SBRT, a type of focused radiation twice for my lungs and they were both successful. One was Proton Beam and the other was Photon Beam. I was very tired after, are you experiencing this also? It took 6 months for the fatigue to peak and then things got better. I really hope that the focused radiation has zapped your cancer for good! Do you know that name for it? You have a very rare form of lung cancer, one I am not familiar with. The type of cancer that I have is called multifocal adenocarcinoma. Simply put this means that I grow more than once cancer at a time. I have had cancer in both lungs and am also stage 4.
Have they treated your lungs successfully? How did they treat it? Please let me know how you are doing. Is your breathing difficult?
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Hi @karen43 and welcome to Connect. you'll notice that I moved your message to an existing discussion in the Lung Cancer group. I did this so that you can connect with others who have experience with metastasized lung cancer.
I invite you to explore some of the other discussions in the Lung Cancer group too: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/lung-cancer/
I'm sorry to hear that the whole brain radiation didn't change the lesions on the brain. Fingers crossed that the second round of targeted radiation helped. How are you doing? Do you have any symptoms?