Re: need advice on my father's lung cancer
- From: jonboy42@xxxxxxxxx (J W)
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:17:49 -0400
What about treatment for quality of life? You haven't told ud if he has
any symptoms. If he doesn't, no treatment may be the best treatment. If
he's got pain, cough, or coughing up blood, radiotherapy will usually
improve those symptoms with little or no side-effects. Where are you
getting your misconceptions from?
Right now he is coughing a lot and having quite a time with his
breathing, especially on hot days. I'm getting my misconceptions
firsthand from knowing people who have died from their cancers while
taking radiation, people who have been burned badly by it and made
quite ill from it. That is why I was asking if the side effects were
worth the risk for less than a 10% chance of a five year survival ( 10%
was straight from doctors mouth). If the end result is death no matter
what, I wouldn't want to be responsible for subjecting him to
uneccessary pain by advising him to take the radiation.
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