Living with lung cancer - Introduce yourself & come say hi

I can understand your fear about the yeast infection returning with the next chemo. Chemo weakens your immune system, making you more suspectible for it to return. Your chemo nurse may have some good tips to help you prevent the yeast infection (candidiasis of the skin) from returning. I might ask about:
- how to keep skin dry
- if taking a probiotic would help
- does diet help, like reducing sugar

I'll be thinking of you on Thursday.

I just started on it

Thank you Colleen

My name is Jean I was diagnosed in December. I actually had a chest X-ray as I wanted a watchman because of AFIB. I had absolutely no symptoms what so ever.Got the results of my chest X-ray on my portal, at the bottom under diagnosis it said there was a 3.1c mass on the upper left lobe of my lung. Too make a long story short had pet scan mris and every test imaginable. Decided I would have surgery but after looking at mri he found small lesion on my brain. Not sure if it is cancer or a spot from 6 years ago when I had a stroke. Decided to do 3 rounds of chemo every 3 weeks. After they will do another mri then hopefully surgery!

Hello to everyone. My name is Cynde and I have had stage 4 lung cancer that had spread to my liver but the last ct scan show no evidence of tumor's on liver. I have been on keytruda carbo and taxol, that stopped working after a year changed treatment to Cyramza and taxotere, been doing alright with this but my white count goes down so having to get the Neulasta shot and Arensep to red count. my team has done a fabulous job of keeping me going for 2 years this march 3rd. I am having a big problem with my legs swelling up where I can not bend my leg to my knees. so started rubbing them pretty hard you could hear a popping sound but my leg swelling went down to where I could bend my legs to my knees feet pretty swollen also, now I am having a horrible itch from waist up but no rash, I have tried clairtin benadryl and all the lotions you can get for itching nothing has helped, it is driving me insane so dr, office sent in rx hydroxyzine hcl 10 mg been on that for 2 days sure hope it helps. so far still itch like crazy, has anyone that has been on cyramza and taxotere had this happen to them all I can think is I am allergic to one of these drugs any advice ? thanks and god bless all of us keep strong and ride along!

My biopsy resulted in a air leak, so I am waiting the lung to heal here in Mayo in Rochester. Should get fluid analysis also, but biopsy of pleura was the goal. Three days feeling like much longer, all moving toward resolution. This is a rare cancer.

Hi my name is selin ,, I just discovered my lung cancer one month ago ,, I’m in the forth stage ,, I just started my chemotherapy and radiation therapy

Sorry to hear this Tom, is the leak healing? Any news from the biopsy results?

Yes sarcamatoid mesothelioma left pleural. Should go to oncology, so yet to learn of their response. Aggressive type, we have our wonderful Lord, family( had another grand girl this morning!); and time and circumstances well arranged- anything more will be welcome indeed !Its there for the taking folks

Take care, enjoy your days! Congrats on the addition to your family, the circle of life continues.