Cancer Survival Stories

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In December of 1999 at the age of 61, I was diagnosed with non small cell cancer in my upper left lung. I was given three chemotherapy treatments (one each week for 3 weeks) consisting of Taxol and Carboplatin and 25 Radiation treatments to reduce the size of the cancer and because it was possible that the cancer was also growing to the pluera wall.
I was scheduled for surgery after the treatments but had to wait for 4 weeks because the chemotherapy treatments had reduced by white blood cell c...Read the full article