I posted earlier that my mother who is 78 was just diagnosed with lung cancer. Since my post we have had 2 consultations with the oncologist and I have found out that she has Stage IIIB with lymph node involvement with the media steinum (chest area) The tumors are very small less than 1cm but because of location are not operable at this time. She starts radiation treatments next week in addition to chemotherapy. She is to have radiation every day for five or six weeks and the chemo is 3days every 3 weeks. She is scared to death of getting sick from the chemo. The chemo that the doctor is using is cisplatin and etoposide.
He told us that cisplatin is a very powerful drug but it also has the most side effects.
He as prescribed a anti-nausea drug with something like the name of embrel. He has told my mother that chemo has come along way and the nausea has been cut back considerably. I am not dealing very well with all of this as I am her only child. I am very upbeat and postive when I am around her but when I come home to my family I am a basket case. When I first came to this site and read the loved ones stories it scared me to death. But, now I need to understand what I am dealing with. God Bless You All.