OP      Senior Member (100+ posts)    Joined:  Mar 2006  Posts: 114  |    So, has no one in history has ever achieved remission after H/N cancer mets to lungs?  I'm asking my doc about anything else I can do to fight this thing - nutrition, etc.  The doc tells me, nope, "this is not curable".  I have inoperable lung mets which so far we've kept stable and shrunk a little with chemo.  But that's it?  I haver ZERO chance of achieving remission at this point?  It just can't happen?  I can understand that it's difficult, rare, not the norm, etc...but completely, absolutely impossible?  That's hard to take.      
Last edited by Steve J.; 02-13-2009 01:30 PM.
       
Age 41 - Stage 2 SCC tongue Dx 2/06. Cisplatin x3, IMRT x35. Mets to neck node discovered 7/07. RND 40 nodes removed, margins not clear. Cisplatin, Taxotere, 5-FU Fall 07, then IMXT/Erbitux for 7 wks. Inoperable mets to both lungs and pleura Dx Oct'08. 4 cycles Carboplatin, Erbitux, 5-FU so far.  
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