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I have posted about my lung cancer before but here is a quick smmary and update. I was diagnosed with Stage 3B NSCLC in February 2022. I had 6 weeks of chemo, Paclitaxel and Carboplatin once a week. I also had Proton radiation therapy over those same 6 weeks, 5 days a week for a total of 30 sessions. Then I had 12 months of immunotherapy using Durvalumab every 4 weeks for 13 sessions.
The update is that the immunotherapy ended in April and I just had a CT scan checkup and it is NED (No Evidence of Disease). That is as good as it gets and of course that makes me feel very good. We will continue with the periodic scans but as of now Mayo Clinic has sure done a great job in treating my cancer. The outstanding result speaks for itself but I want to say how much I appreciate my entire oncology team and everybody that treated me. They really know how to deal with patients and were so wonderfully nice and they kept me feeling positive during this entire trying time.

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Hi @nonobaddog My mom was diagnosed with stage 3B (possibly 3C) NSCLC in Feb. She had a tumor of 7cm in her lower left lobe and mets to mediastinum lymph nodes. She did 5 months of targeted therapy with Dabrafenib and Trametinib, since she has the BRAF 600E mutation. That shrank the tumor to 3cm in Aug. She just finished 30 sessions of proton beam therapy plus 6 weeks concurrent Carboplatin and Paclitaxel a week ago. That's the same treatment as you! My mom has Sjogren's Syndrome, so her oncologist is concerned that she might get peumonitis and don't recommend doing immunotherapy next. Instead, continuing with targeted therapy of Dabrafenib and Trametinib was recommended. I am really curious if you have any adverse side effect with the immunotherapy of Durvalumab. Could you comment?