Anybody know anything about NSCLC (non small cell lung cancer)?

please lend me any information u have about this my mom has it and is in the final stage, i wanted to see if i could get any useful information

any information u havee would be great, survival rates, sideeffects of chemo and radiation, anythingg

What all would you like to know. I have stage iv NSCLC... if you would like to email me, feel free to do so.

Survival rate varies from person to person, it really depends on the state of health at the time of diagnosis. For me, I was dx'd on May 15th,06.. my onc at that time told me I only had 2-4 months without treatment, but with chemo I may have a year. I decided to take the treatments to give myself time to try to 'fix me'. I worked very hard on nutritional choices in my diet, changed my lifestyle to concentrate on healing.. and here I am still alive nearly 3 years later. The chemo they gave me for my first 6 rounds kept me stable but did nothing to reduce my cancer, actually my primary had a couple more babies as I went thru chemo. After my 6 rounds I had 9 months off to recoup from the treatment. During this time I remained as active as I could be, ate a very healthy diet and rested as well as I could. Unfortunately I developed osteo from the chemo treatment so am dealing with that pain. So with whatever treatment your mom gets, be sure to check to see if bone loss can occur and ask the onc what can be done to prevent that from happening to her. After my 9 months off, I went for another 6 rounds of chemo, finished in January of this year, tolerated it well and now I am on a watch and wait til the end of April. I am not sure what else to tell you, only that your mom is in for the fight of her life, she should eat as nutritionally as she can to keep her body in top shape, exercise moderately, rest when she needs to, any supplements she wants to take should be cleared by her onc if she is to be going thru chemo. STAY POSITIVE.. sorry for the caps but staying positive is a must. The mind and body work closely together.. "What the mind can conceive, the body can achieve". Please email if you ever need to talk. With my treatments, my diet and lifestyle change and keeping a positive attitude, my cancer has not advanced outside of the original site.. so I just keep doing what I am doing, and hopefully can keep adding on a year of life, one year at a time.
I didn't have radiation so can't comment on the side effects of that. But for the chemo, my worst times would be the third day after chemo infusion, my largest bones, ie: thighs, arm bones, would get very sore, also my muscles would ache with flu like symptoms. This is not really a bad thing, as it means the good cells are rebuilding. I really didn't have bad side effects, some fatigue and of course hair loss, but that was about it.