- Dec 05, 2010
My mother is finishing up her radiation and chemo treatment for stage 3a NSLC. She smoked f...
Tarceva
Information, Symptoms, Treatments and Resources
What is Tarceva?
Tarceva 100 mg Tab
Drug Name: ERLOTINIB - ORAL
Other Brand Names: Tarceva
Uses: This medication is used to treat lung cancer. Erlotinib is used after other chemotherapy drugs have not been effective. It works by slowing cancer cell growth.
Posts on Tarceva (14)
- Sep 12, 2009
Hello - my 80 year old father (Asian) was recently diagnosed with lung cancer via CT scan. ...
My 77 year old dad was taken to hospital with chest and rib pain. He had lost 12 kilos in t...
- Aug 15, 2008
Is Tarceva only effective if the person has the EGFR mutation in the lung tumour?Can it be ...
- Dec 06, 2009
Hi all just want to keep you posted , my husband started on the drug Tarceva since his lun...
- Aug 10, 2008
My sister in law was diagnosed with non small cell carcinoma of the lung 14 months ago. She...
- Mar 05, 2008
I have been taking Tarceva for 11 days. My right leg has become swollen from the knee down...
- Feb 14, 2008
I wrote last week about my dad who was diagnosed with NSCLC in October 2007. At the time al...
- Mar 20, 2008
A good friend was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the right lung at the end of Dec 2007. A...
Hi. I had tongue cancer that was surgically removed in Jan 2006. I had a small lump remov...
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