Re: My Relative Has Lung Cancer!! I Need Info Quickly!!

midwest_46@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Here is an update on this situation:

Some doctors found a way to remove the sac containing my relative's
lungs without causing significant damage, and the sac was removed.
However, the cancer obviously still remains.

A cancer specialist stated that my relative has stage 4
adenocarcinoma.

The cancer specialist stated that chemotherapy would be very dangerous
for my relative and would only slow the cancer down. So, chemotherapy
is a poor solution.

Radiation therapy would require the irradiation of the entire lung and
might destroy good and bad tissue. However, a recent article in the
Chicago Tribune described something called proton therapy.

Here is the article:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northwest/chi-proton-therapyfeb27,0,1792923.story

Here is a website explaining proton therapy:

http://www.proton-therapy.org/questions.htm

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Proton therapy supposedly precisely targets tumors and avoids the good
tissue.

So, will proton therapy help my relative?

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Two other possibilities are the following:

1) A lung transplant.

2) Simply removing the lung and allowing my relative to live with only
one lung.

Are either of these two options feasible?


Once again, thanks for any information.

go to cancer.gov. That is the National Cancer institute. That site has information has information about new treatments and clinical studies. Use google and scholar.google.com to learn about that photon treatment and other treatments. Be wary of alternative medicine, because most of the treatments have not been prove. Ask the patient's doctors.

Use google to learn about hospice care, as well. Unfortunately, the above treatments most likely won't work.

Jeff
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