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What Is The Medication For Lung Cancer?
Good morning dr. krueger
I’m living in costa rica, 43, female, stage4 non-small cell lung cancer, non smoker.
I received only 4 of 6 rounds of chemotherapy due to a severe lung infection 7 month ago.
After 4 round of chemotherapy (sisplatin combo), cancer was shrinking and currently only in one lung present and growing now since left with no treatment.
Tecnically I should be death several month ago, but I’m in excellent health conditions and fighting with government hospital for additional treatment.
They are offering now chemotherapy and radiotherapy combined.
Since I cannot trust the oncologists working for public hospitals trying to save money, here is my question.
What kind of treatments, combinations, duration, do you recommend now and what shall I do after, if I survive this treatments and panorama is looking good?
Available in costa rica is 3d, cobalt, and chemotherapy is bought in the USA.
I also intend to travel to cuba for cimavax efg vaccin and I’m actually taking a daily dose of scorpion venom from cuba.
Do you recommend equinacea for preventing future infection?
Many thanks in advance for all the help I can get.
I’m living in costa rica, 43, female, stage4 non-small cell lung cancer, non smoker.
I received only 4 of 6 rounds of chemotherapy due to a severe lung infection 7 month ago.
After 4 round of chemotherapy (sisplatin combo), cancer was shrinking and currently only in one lung present and growing now since left with no treatment.
Tecnically I should be death several month ago, but I’m in excellent health conditions and fighting with government hospital for additional treatment.
They are offering now chemotherapy and radiotherapy combined.
Since I cannot trust the oncologists working for public hospitals trying to save money, here is my question.
What kind of treatments, combinations, duration, do you recommend now and what shall I do after, if I survive this treatments and panorama is looking good?
Available in costa rica is 3d, cobalt, and chemotherapy is bought in the USA.
I also intend to travel to cuba for cimavax efg vaccin and I’m actually taking a daily dose of scorpion venom from cuba.
Do you recommend equinacea for preventing future infection?
Many thanks in advance for all the help I can get.
Fri, 18 Sep 2015
Hello dear. You are suffering from metastatic lung cancer. You can undergo 2nd line of chemotherapy and further 3rd line of therapy if you stay fit. More over oral treatment is also available(depending upon your tumors' EGFR, ALK, ROS1 mutation status). and also nivolumab therapy is available now. So you have still good amount of life remaining, so need not to worry. You can discuss these with your doctor. radiotherapy will be of little help as of now.
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