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I was diagnosed last April & was put on the same time frame as you, 3 days in a row & 3 weeks off. In between the 1st & 2nd rounds they put me on twice a day radiation treatments every week day for 5 weeks. That regime was prescribed by the Mayo oncologist & my local radiation oncologist. My cancer is in the upper section of my right lung. Radiation is not painful, just so many trips (50) Fortunately both oncologist offices are just a couple of miles apart for the overlap days.
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How are you going now? My husband was diagnosed with SC SCLC I recently.
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Lady,
Thank you. I assume you are doing pretty well. Now, I am questioning why radiation was not recommended for me. I have the tumor (?) in my left lung, nodes in my chest and in my right shoulder and 3 spots on my liver. Brain MRI was clean, so far. I saw the oncologist at Stanford and the one locally and they seemed to agree on treatment, I guess. So, your cancer has not spread? I have seen mention of a couple other Chemo combinations. I have seen mention that some people seem to be taking additional drug therapy. Considering when I am saying I started complaining of the cough (Sept ?) I shoukd be much sicker then I am. She said something about me possibly having a classification of SCLC, neuroendocrine, whatever that means. Thank you so mych. I am jyst worn out talking about and reading about this and I am not seeing a whole lot of encouragement out there.