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yuyu asked:
So father diagnosed wh Gall bladder cancer January told spread aTiny Liver. Gemcitabine chemetherapy treatment told there’d surgery cancer bn veins- Tests de weekly basis tt blood wk bn consistently immune organs we functioning well-The docs decided scan chemo hasn’t difference noticed spots lungs. ft time ty scan, concentrated Gall bladder, difficult tell wr lung origin ao treatment working. didn’t father th bout chemo gonna mess thing, Doctorsinsisted carry course treatment- happening here, ty fail spots lungs?
What you are saying doesn’t make sense.
There should be no doubt what kind of cancer the doctors are dealing with and metastatic work up is always done before treatment begins. Either you have not been told everything or you misunderstood something.
The only way they would not have seen lung mets is if they were too small to be picked up at the time.
I’m not sure if you have spoken to his doctor and if you haven’t you really need to. The doctor is trying to prolong his life and decrease his symptoms. I’m sorry to say, your father’s disease is not curable. Gallbladder cancer is almost always fatal. The median survival is 6 months. Even in patients with resectable disease only 27% are alive at one year. Stage 4 disease has a 5-year survival rate of 0%. These cancers are known to respond poorly to chemo. We do not have anyway to manage this disease. I’m very sorry.