Calcium citrate?

There's tips here including stretching and pointing, especially before bedtime
http://tinyurl.com/5o6y6
There's other "salts" mentioned there also.
Potassium can be found in cantaloupes, bananas, tomatoes, grapefruits and
orange juice
From the archives, Mike suggested something like Gatorade or "quinine
bisulphate it might be worth a go."
HTH Socks
J

Have you tried vicks or a sports cream and an ibuprofen tablet at night?  I
have had a similar problem and this seems to bring relief for me.  Also began
wearing the inexpensive brand of insoles in shoes  that did not have much arch.
Kathy J

Maybe it's not directly r/t cancer. Possibly some nerve damage from drxt or
just maybe your muscles are so weak they cramp with minimal exercise.
Whatever, quinine bisulphate is often very effective.
MIKE

Hi Socks,
Was it you who mentioned Iressa?

I wondered if you heard that  Tarceva was just approved for advanced NSCLC ?

there's a bunch of posts on sci.med.diseases.cancer (each show a slightly
different view) and/or various details.
Please have a look.  I don't want to suggest something that might make you
worse, or give you false hope, or adversely affect your health or quality of
life..

Some points.
Claim is 2 months more (in some).
Failed miserable in combo with chemo
Common side effects, rash, diarrhea, liver enzymes..more serious ones listed in
the other posts.
Expensive $2500./month
pill form
Some tumour response, BUT, I don't know if it was those who were positive for
the EGFR (see below)

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2004/NEW01139.html
Safety and efficacy were demonstrated in one randomized trial in 731 patients
comparing Tarceva to
placebo. The primary endpoint in this trial was survival. The median overall
survival was 6.7
months in the Tarceva group compared with 4.7 months in the placebo group.

The mechanism of action by which Tarceva exerts its clinical benefit is not
fully understood.
However, Tarceva was developed to block growth stimulatory signals in cancer
cells. These signals
are mediated in part by enzymes called tyrosine kin sases. Tarceva blocks the
tyrosine kinase
associated with Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR).

In about one third of the patients tumor cells were examined to see whether
they had high or low
levels of EGFR. Among the approximately 55% who had high EGFR the effect on
survival was much
greater than it was in people whose EGFR levels were low. The relationship will
be explored further []

Did they live longer because it was a clinical trial or because of the actual
treatment?

http://www.thestreet.com/_tscs/comment/adamfeuerstein/10195267.html
Iressa was approved on the basis of uncontrolled studies that showed the drug
shrank tumors in
about 10% of patients who have failed all other treatments; the studies were
not designed to
determine whether patients lived longer.

FWIW
J