The treatments probably won’t help him. But he wants to help patients in the future by allowing the doctors to study his condition and try new things.
I read about his type of cancer when he was diagnosed two years ago. The life expectancy for that type of cancer is two to four months.
My wife has Stage 4 cancer. We met with her doctors last Friday. They were very optimistic about many new developments in the last five years that have shown a fair amount of success.
My husband was diagnosed with stage 3b lung cancer early October. Just finished 35 targeted radiation treatments and 6 weeks of chemo. Follow up scan in February. Starts immunotherapy after results come in. They are having success with immunotherapy drugs.
I’m taking my mother to Jefferson University Hospital tomorrow for a biopsy and a consult at her ENT’s referral. She has a rapidly growing parotid tumor - and they suspect squamous cell. That’s a bad one. It happened so fast, she is in shock.
Before my mother-in-law died from breast cancer, she enrolled in some experimental protocols. I mentioned this to one of my oncologists, who commented that it is because of the bravery of people like my mother-in-law that we have such improved breast cancer treatments now.
Your son is very brave. Many prayers for him.