Lung Cancer Questions

Hello, Progression-free survival (pfs) is the length of time during and after the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, that a patient lives with the disease but it does not get worse.

Progression-free survival (pfs) is the length of time during and after the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, that a patient lives with the disease but it does not get worse. So your this time period is 1 year.

Your father may have cancer and the report can't be seen here in questions. It can be uploaded in consult privately option.

The lung cancer is not transferrable from a third person to you. However, there may be increased chances if close relative like your mother is suffering.

Hello .Its difficult to say that it will be curable or not , but definitely Homoeopathic treatment will help to palliate and delay the progress of the disease. You can ask me through private questions.

Hello . ttf1 ( thyroid transcription factor ) is a reliable marker for thyroid and pulmonary adenocarcinoma. p40 is best marker for pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma. these are indicators for type of cancer cell.

CBC merely identifies that there is some abnormality in the body. It does not signify that you have pancoast tumor. Further investigations are necessary to confirm that.

Based on mutation study, targetted therapy can be helpful and also better tolerable than chemotherapy.

If you are suffering from stage 4 lung cancer you will require systemic treatment in the form of targeted therapy or chemotherapy. You need to get few test done to see whether you are candidate for targeted therapy or else you will require chemotherapy. Please visit a medical oncologist.

Sorry to know about your father. Even at age 76 years Chemotherapy can provide relief if given under supervision of a experienced Oncologist.