What to expect with radiation and chemo for inoperable lung cancer?

Treatment for stage III non-small cell lung cancer can feel overwhelming, and it's completely understandable to want to hear from others who have walked this path. Many community members have shared valuable insights about managing daily treatment schedules, side effects, and practical tips for getting through concurrent or sequential treatment approaches. Hopefully, others in this community will share their experiences to help provide the real-world perspective that can be so meaningful during this time.

I had 4 regimens of chemo and radiation on my Tumor on my brain. There were giving steroids with chemo and keytruda and gave me a pill steroids for inflammation why they were doing radiation. They really pump you up. Could not sleep one night. They have to wing you off them. Put it cured my brain tumors. Also before the brain they did radiation on tumor on my rib it did not shrink but chemotherapy and keytruda shrunk one in my rib.

Chemo and keytruda Shrunk one tumor in lung

I was stage 3B but did have surgery. If I were you I’d get a 2nd opinion to confirm. Next up is biomarker testing. That has to be done in order to choose the right drug(s). I did chemo/radiation at the same time. Radiation 5days/ week for 6 weeks and chemo 1 day a week. Thursdays were long days! I would do them together again if given the choice. But they may have reason to do them separately for better outcome. Some who are EGFR positive get to skip all other treatment and just go on a targeted therapy pill (Tagrisso). I did that for 4 years when I progressed. It wasn’t bad.