Will radiation plus chemo work?

On 1/25/2007 Chillitroutman wrote:

Hello, My wife just completed 3 treatments of carboplatin and taxol with no results. We were trying to shrink the tumor enough to remove the entire lung. Now our oncologist wants us to do 6 weeks of radiation along with cisplatin and vp16 (etoposide). Does anybody have any encouraging experience from doing this kind of treatment? Will this work?

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My husband had 6 weeks of radiation and chemo and we do not have the final results yet but about 3/4 way through the treatment he was told the tumor had shrunk by at least 50%.  From what I have read the combination of chemo and radiation is a good one.

 

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