MichelleR Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Hello. My father has stage 4 NSCLC. We found out about 7 months ago and was given 9-12 months to live. We tried chemo, but the sideaffects were killing him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recce101 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Hi, Michelle, welcome to LCSC. I'm sorry to hear about your father's diagnosis, and hope we can help you and perhaps him with any issues you may have. First, as you will probably hear from others, we don't place much if any stock in prognosis statistics. While the average/mean survival time may be a certain number of months for a certain stage of lung cancer, these numbers have essentially no relevance for any individual patient — there are simply too many variables, such as general health, how early or late the diagnosis was arrived at, how aggressive a particular cancer is, and more. What chemo combination was tried with your father? After that was discontinued, were any other options offered? How is he feeling now? Please read through some of the personal stories here, either in the My Story forum or in the profile section of most of the messages in any forum. Perhaps you'll see a parallel in some that will give you and your dad a better perspective and some hope. Much Aloha, Ned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandraL Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Hi Michelle. I am glad you found us but so sorry about your need to be here. Ned has asked lots of good questions that will help us help you. Please do tell us more and keep us posted on how he is doing. As Ned said, you will read lots of inspirational stories here and most of all, HOPE. Take care Sandra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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