Prognosis for stage IV NSCLC Posted: 05-13-08 23:51pm
Hello All,
Could somebody please ballpark a
prognosis/life expectancy for my mother.
She is 66 yrs. and has been diognosed with
Poorly differentiatd adenocarcrnoma non
small cell lung cancer that has spread to
her brain. I have been to all her
appointments but it is so hard to ask th
"How Long" question in front of my mother.
I also know that her cancer is not
operable and I was hoping to find out her
prognosis/ life expectancy. So many things
i'd like to do in case her treatment runs
her into the ground.
Thanks To All,
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MandMs
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Hello, gman66! Posted: 05-20-08 03:31am
How is your mother treated at the moment?
Does she has single or multiple metastasis
in the brain?
Is her primary cancer (lung cancer)
symptomatic?
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gman66
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Posted: 05-20-08 22:53pm
She is being treated "palliative". She has
15 radiation treatments. She will have 2
Chemo treatments scheduled about 3 weeks
apart. She has multiple metastasis in the
brain. Also can you tell which one is
worse or which one will become her problem
brain or lung. thanks so much
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Posted: 05-26-08 07:00am
Radiation therapy has become a mainstream
therapy for brain metastasis, especially,
for patients with multiple lesions. With
this treatment, median survival is 3-6
months (some data says 2-3 months)
depending on number of lesions (patients
with solitary lesions have a better
prognosis), their radiosensitivity, and
the status of systemic disease.
I found some information about case
similar to your mum.
It's about a patient with stage IIIb
non-small cell lung cancer and brain
metastasis, who has received Gefitinib, a
drug used in the treatment of certain
types of cancer.
The patient experienced a dramatic
clinical improvement within 1 week.
Follow-up magnetic resonance imaging of
the brain 1 month later showed decreases
in both the size and number of brain
metastases and the patient remained well 9
months after initiation of gefitinib.
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