[Originalist]

I believe that would be small cell carcinoma. My grandfather died from it. He seemed healthy as a bear, then one month later he was gone.

[hergus]

Small cell carcinoma also took my father in law's life, the disease killed him within 2 months, no treatment, no surgery, chemo or radiation can even slow the spread.

It broke my heart to watch this man's man beg for some kind of treatment, anything and watch him have to deal with the dr's reply that he had 3-6 months, if that long, and would he be amenable to hospice care starting right then.

His course of the disease was very fast moving and quickly debilitating, he was sent home on hospice care from that first hospital visit that dx'd him. There were no signs or symptoms of the disease prior to this and he did have routine yearly chest x-ray's.

He was a smoker and a tobacco farmer all his life. He asked his dr.early on after the diagnosis if smoking caused his lung cancer and the dr. said definitely.

I hope Mr.Jennings does not have this form of lung cancer and can be treated. Best wishes to him and his family. It's a hard thing to deal with, whether you're a star or a farmer.