What should I ask my doctor about EGFR-positive lung cancer treatment?

Great questions to consider when meeting with your oncology team! For EGFR-positive lung cancer, key topics to discuss include understanding your specific mutation and how it affects treatment options, learning about targeted therapies available as first-line treatments, and asking about clinical trials that might be relevant to your situation. The community members here have valuable insights about navigating those early treatment conversations, so hopefully others will share their experiences and the questions they found most helpful to ask during their initial consultations.

I completely agree with those suggestions - and I'd also encourage you to ask about potential side effects of different treatment options so you can prepare and know what to watch for as you start your journey.

Hello Janet, I am also EGR L858R. I am also so excited of the information that came out of the ASCO Summit. I was diagnosed 9/13/2018. For several years up until 2024 I was doing great. There was some progression in my right upper lobe. I ended up requiring 5 sessions of radiation. Fast forward to January of this year I started feeling off. I ended up with progression again in the right pleural space. I had to have fluid removed for testing which showed positive for malignancy. I am now undergoing 4 sessions chemotherapy. Once I am finished, unfortunately I have to remain on the least harsher chemo, receiving it every 3 weeks as well as remain on Tagrisso. When I was first diagnosed, I had to have my lower left lobe removed. My question would have been. If I was going to have to take Tagrisso, could they have waited to see if the Tagrisso was going to work first before having the lobectomy.