Look at this impressing case

passion · 发表于 2007-3-12 22:45:37

在susan的推荐下去看了lchelp,在一个人的签名档上看到了如下的治疗记录, 非常非常的impressive!跟大家一起分享~48yr. old, married, 12 yr. old daughter. 8-15-05 - Took myself to the ER. X-Ray shows mass on right lung. Hospitalized 4 days - broncoscopy, pet scan, MRI, CT, port-a-cath. Dx NSCLC Stage IIIB,adeno with squamous characteristics. Quit smoking after 30 yrs. Radiation x 25. Chemo - Taxol, Carboplatin x 2; reaction to Taxol 2nd infusion. Taxotere, Carboplatin x 4 - reaction to Carbo on 6th infusion. Taxotere weekly. Mediastinoscopy shows lymph node with cancer, hilar region. Pneumonectomy not possible. Good news is cancer is confined to right side. Radiation x 10 - right hilar boost. Taxotere weekly x 3 then every 3 weeks x 2. Last treatment scheduled for Feb. 3.

et scan scheduled for Feb. 17. Mar. 1, 2006 - Restaged from 3B to 1A! Hilar lymph node is completely clear! Lung tumor has shrunk more than 50%. Will do 3 rounds (every 3 weeks) of Taxotere to knock the remaining tumor into oblivion. After that, will probably begin Tarceva. 4/25/06 - New PET/CT scans. 4/28/06 - Onc. declares the tumor "virtually dead". Although some residual tumor remains, little to no activity is seen. Began Tarceva 4/29. Not NED but real darn close! 6/27/06 - Onc. visit -- all tumor markers are NORMAL!!!

ET scan July 27 - Stable - Residual disease cannot be excluded. Again, not NED but I'll take it. Next onc. visit is August 27. Continue on Tarceva. Moving right along... 9/25/06 - Celebrated my 49th (yikes!) birthday. Next PET scan on 10/26. 10/31/06 - PET Scan - Stable! Next onc. visit Jan. '07 Feeling great, working full-time, hoping for the best for all of us.

Susan · 发表于 2007-3-13 03:34:07

There are lots of impressive stories. They are all very positive even to the end.  The one year survival time seems longer.  One of the most important differences that I have to point out is that here in the states people get better medical care and have more access to different clinical trials. Keep our spirit on!

passion · 发表于 2007-3-13 09:42:04

yeap, it's quite interesting. I entered into the live chat room last night, but nobody there

It seems that Tarceva was used to prevent mets in the States, right? Any statistics regarding that?

嘎子 · 发表于 2007-3-13 09:55:47

能不能翻译下,大家都能分享下,有些看不明白

passion · 发表于 2007-3-13 14:00:04

简单翻译一下吧,有点长48/女,30岁戒烟05/08/15 有鳞癌特性的腺癌,IIIB,右肺 治疗方案: 25次放疗 化疗- Taxol, Carboplatin x 2; reaction to Taxol 2nd infusion. Taxotere, Carboplatin x 4 - reaction to Carbo on 6th infusion. 每周Taxotere 气管镜发现肺门淋巴转移,不能进行肺切除手术, 放射10次,Taxotere 每周三次, 然后每3周两次2006/03/01,  检查显示从IIIB降至IA,继续３周期taxotere(每三周一周期的），然后开始吃tarceva2006/04/15, 肿瘤医生宣布癌症死了之后一直服用tarceva, 到现在仍旧稳定目前全职工作

之之 · 发表于 2007-3-13 14:57:17

Susan说得没错，越来越多的事例鼓舞着我们，奋斗到底。成功的人往往就是坚持做完一件看似不可能成功的事。但是确实我们目前的医疗体制太落后了，无法得到全面有效的治疗。很多人得了病就只能束手无策采用常规的治疗手段，延误了病情。

Susan · 发表于 2007-3-13 20:51:12

if you sign on as a member, you will get an email usually at the beginning of a month informing you that a live chatting event with Dr West, an oncologist will held soon. You can ask questions and he will answer you. Tarceva is widely used along with Avastin in the states here. If you search them in Google, you will find a lot of information about those drugs. I do not have any statistics numbers in front of me unfortunately. Irressa has been disconnected in the states due to its poor performance.I also recommend you guys to go to some cancer hospitals's websites to dig out more information. One is <a href="http://www.MSKCC.org">www.MSKCC.org</a> and the other is <a href="http://www.mdanderson.org/">http://www.mdanderson.org/</a>.  They are the two best cancer institutes in the states.

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