My dad has small cell lung cancer; he was told it was terminal and given 'quality of life treatment'
At his last appt (4 weeks into chemotherapy) he was told it had massively reduced in size and that were changing his treatment plan to 'curative' rather than 'quality of life'
This has left me confused and upset as I had accepted his death and now I have to rethink things
In fact they have given him a 9-12% chance of life - which isn't much and from what I've read, the cancer is likely to return
I feel a bit lost
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Life-limiting illness
Dealing with "Good news"
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KatyMac · 06/08/2014 19:32
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