My husband has stage 4 oral cancer. The tongue, ear canal, throat, jawbone, and front inside of the lip is involved. That we know of.
Since this is his third bout, The last one was in 1991, and he has had considerable reconstructive surgery before; The surgery proposed is exstensive.
It will leave him without speech, Hearing on the left side, no jaw bone and being feed through a stomach tube. That is if all goes well.
The cancer is moving so rapidly that we don't even know this for certain. They are trying to get him in for a MRI.
His pain is increasing rapidly. They now have him on pretazone.(sp)
When do they say no, this is enough? The cancer has spread too far? When is the quality of life wroth more than the quantity? I don't want to lose him but I don't wnat him to go through all of this and then lose him anyway.
Does anyone have an answer.