Stage 3C NSCLC KRAS K117N - chemo + radiation
My mom was diagnosed with stage 3C NSCLC a few weeks ago. She’s a non-smoker who has been very healthy until 7 months ago.
Long story short she was misdiagnosed with “aspiration pneumonia” for 7 months while in and out of the ER and hospital and lied to about biopsy. We were told it wasn’t cancer until we got a second opinion. Needless to say I’m angry and scared for her and scared the doctors wasted time being incompetent so now it’s not operable and scared treatments won’t work.
She starts chemo tomorrow and radiation the next day. I’m reading so many bad things about chemo. Do people survive chemo? Any tips or ways to prepare for chemo and what should we expect?
The liquid biopsy biomarker testing came back and there are genetic mutations… but it’s KRAS and not the kind with targeted therapies. It’s KRAS K117N, which apparently is rare I can’t even find it when searching here. Also CBL and TP53 which apparently is a bad genetic mutation to have too.
Is there hope that the tissue biomarker testing will come back with different gene mutations that have targeted therapies? Does anyone have experience with these gene mutations? Any stories of hope? With these genetic mutations, should we look at somewhere like MD Anderson?