redheadof3

Thank you so much for your responses and sharing the information. Gina

My step father was diagnosed with lung cancer in Jan 06. It was not operatable but he received chemo and radiation. The radiation burned his esphogus so badly that he was hospilized twice and has a feeding tube since he was unable to swallow food. He was told this would heal but it only healed enough for very soft foods. He lost 60 pounds now over the past year. He was starting to feel a bit better until this past Nov when the pain meds weren't doing as much (he is on 100MG patch every other day) The cancer spread to the adrenal gland which was causing the severe back pains he was getting. The gave him morphine to take on the really bad days and uped the time to take his patches. They want to start him on a new chemo called pemetrexed on Thursday. He is 6 ft and 142 pounds. They won't give any more radiation based on the esphogus issue. But we worry that this round of chemo is going to take him down so much. Has anyone had any experience with this type of chemo? I have read it usually is combine with another drug but this is not. They did give him a Vit b shot and a steroid shot and he looks the best he has in a long time today from it. Thanks!