I'm not sure of the type other than the non-small cell. It hit him hard and fast. He had 2 rounds of chemo. And they were going to put him on Tarceva I think is the name. but he had no health ins. so it was slow going. He was 6 foot 2 and weighed only 123lbs. He was put in the hospital on Wednesday morning about 4am for sob and was there diagnosed with pneumonia. I got the call from the hospital at 4am this Friday that he had passed. Like I had said, he was telling everyone that the docs had gotten almost all the cancer. When I talked to the attending doc., she said he knew how bad it was. I can only speculate that he was trying to spare us. I, being a nurse, should have known how bad it was because he was going through 4mg Dilaudid 60count every 10 days. But I'm not an oncology nurse and, well, I was just wanting to beleive that he was getting better!!