I need Chemotherapy advice please..?!
Question: I need Chemotherapy advice please..?
My 86 year old mother has been in GREAT health all of her life. Until about 3 months ago she was having what she thought was "sinus trouble" we took her to a lung specialist, they found out that it was not sinus trouble, it was small cell lung cancer. she then fell and ruptured a disk in her back. so that put the chemo off until last night. (2/16/2011) she fell and ruptured her disk on the 28th of January. and was diagnosed with small-cell lung cancer on the 26th on January. how long do you think her life is with "heavy-doses" of chemotherapy? and how long if she decides to stop the chemo. she has been a smoker since she was 16, and also has COPD and is on 15 liters of O2. I just do not want to see her to suffer. She has been in to good of health.
Answers:
If she smoked for 70 years, than she did amazingly well to hold off the cancer until age 86. It caught up to my mother in her early 60's and killed her. She went through a lot of agony! My dad ended up with emphysema but managed to live until his 80's. he also quit the last 10 years of his life and was doing better until he got penomnia!
In our country (Asia), usually doctor wouldn't recommend patient over 80s to undergo chemotherapy.
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