r/LungCancerSupport

My 75-year-old father was recently diagnosed with Stage IV lung adenocarcinoma (non-small cell lung cancer). The primary tumor is in his left lung, and a biopsy confirmed two metastatic lesions in his left rib. The mediastinal lymph nodes that were biopsied were negative for cancer. His oncologist is recommending 4 rounds of Carboplatin/Pemetrexed chemotherapy and 35 radiation treatments to the lung and rib with the goal of achieving remission. Molecular testing and PD-L1 results are still pending.
Has anyone had a similar diagnosis or treatment plan? I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences, outcomes, and any advice.
For additional context, my father is otherwise in excellent health for his age. He’s very active and has no major medical issues aside from well-controlled high blood pressure. He also underwent a triple bypass in 2021 at age 70 and made an excellent recovery.

My 75-year-old father was diagnosed with Stage IV lung adenocarcinoma (non-small cell lung cancer). The primary tumor is in his left lung, and a biopsy confirmed 2 metastasis to his left rib. The lymph nodes that were biopsied were negative. His oncologist is recommending 4 rounds of Carboplatin/Pemetrexed chemotherapy and 35 radiation treatments to the lung and rib with the goal of remission. Molecular testing and PD-L1 results are still pending. Has anyone had a similar diagnosis or treatment plan? I’d appreciate hearing your experiences and outcomes. To note my father is in great health and very active no major health complications asides from high blood pressure that he controls with medication. Also he had a triple bypass in 2021 at the age of 70 and recovered beautifully.

I have been on maintenance with Pem every 3 weeks and Ketruda every 6 weeks for some months. I am dropping the Pemexetred.

Last infusion I got both, 2 weeks later had diarrhea, going on 7 days now.

Last time I saw my doctor, six days ago, I mentioned the one day of diarrhea, and she was very concerned and asked me more about it, if it was like the dry heaves. It wasn’t at that time, but it’s getting closer.

I have a call into my doctors office, but I don’t have much hope of hearing back in a timely fashion. I’m taking OTC meds and they have no effect.

Does anybody have any experience like this? Will it be better now that I’m quitting the pemexetred?