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SBRT for lung cancer: What's your experience?

Lung Cancer | Last Active: May 3 11:07am | Replies (39)
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@lynn1961

I’m confused about second and third round. Is this on the same tumor or it has shown up in a different area?
I start SBRT on Wednesday, I’m doing 5 treatments and from what I was told if this doesn’t work they can’t redo the same lobe a second time.

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trfb | @trfb | Oct 28, 2023

I initially had two tumors, one in each lung.
The first round of radiation was in a larger tumor in my right lung and was five days a week for six weeks along with chemotherapy.
The first SBRT was on the second, smaller, tumor in my left lung.
The second SBRT was in a third small tumor, which apparently formed while I was going through the initial treatments. At that time they did not confirm that this was malignant, but since it was new and near the larger tumor in my right lung, they suggested doing a round of SBRT. I agreed to do this, as a precautionary measure rather than go through the risk of another biopsy.
I had a scan with contrast a few weeks ago, and there is no sign of malignancy in the 2 tumors which had the SBRT treatment and both have reduced in size.
Also, the larger tumor in my right lung no longer shows any cancer.
My next scan will be in four months.
So this is a long answer to your question. I do believe that SBRT has a very high success rate. So far, I have proof of this.

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