Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | SCC lung mets are very difficult to treat. They may, in fact, be discussing palliative treatment and they want her strength built up to begin that protocol. Palliative treatment is used to extend life and minimize pain, shrink tumors, etc. The weakness could be caused by malnutrition or possibly low blood oxygen levels due to the lung mets (possibly even low TSH levels from radiation damage to the thyroid).
Some people just don't respond to treatment I am sorry to say and recurrence in the first year can have very serious consequences. I wish that I could give you something more positive to hold on to. No one should have to go through this... We are here for you.
Gary Allsebrook *********************************** Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2 Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy) ________________________________________________________ "You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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