Hi there,

Need help and advice:

So...2016 my mother was diagnosed with primary Bowel Cancer that was resected with no recurrence to date, then  in 2017 she had a new primary Lung cancer which was resected with adjuvant chemotherapy with again no recurrence as per her last CT scan . At the same time in 2017 she was diagnosed with a lung carcinoid in her other lung which again is stable.

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Hi, My mother is currently on Alimta infusions ( 4th dosage), Her primary side effect since the start was severe nerve pain, which was under control with Lyrica. Since the last cycle, the pain is now is the stomach, severe pain and unable to eat any food, combined with Fatigue is getting unmanageable. The oncologist tried a few different medications for the stomach pain (dicyclomine + paracetamol) and gas medications, but no relief. Looking for any recommendations that might  help ease the pain and weight loss. Thank you in advance. 

My wife is taking treatment for EGFR mutant lung cancer that had spread to her brain. She started with tagrisso and later after resistant went thru chemo drugs and they are not helping.  We are planning to try erlotinib (tarceva). The recent molecular shows the mutant as EGFR e746_s752 (exon 19 deletion ) and same as it was before 2 years ago except it had formed resistant to egfr c797s so tagrisso did not work. 

Hi, my sister (47 YO, Seattle, WA) was diagnosed with lung cancer (non small cell adenocarcinoma) spring 2019. She had symptoms for a year before that, but her doctor at the time failed to do additional tests, she had ground glass on her scans and was being treated for pneumonia. She is now being treated at Virginia Mason in Seattle. June 2019 her lower and middle lobes of the right lung were removed with negative margins, 22 lymph nodes were removed and were all negative for cancer. The stage was determined as 3A. Her blood biopsy showed mutation EGFR T790M.

My sister was diagnosed with IMA lung cancer this July. It was found during the physical exam. She is 55 years old, otherwise very healthy and active, and has never smoked. Since the tumor was very big, 4.4 cm, the doctor scheduled surgery and removed the lower lobe of her right lung in mid-July and said it is stage 2A. The PET scan and the examination of the tumor tissue did not find any spread.