My partner of 18yrs, aged 50 was diagnosed last August with stage 4 small cell lung cancer. I was told that it was terminal in October but have kept it from him, as he made it clear early on that he did not want to know the prognosis. Like all of you we have been on a roller coaster ride of emotions and our lives are consumed with this awful disease.

However, looking on the positives, he has completed 6 cycles of chemo and has today completed 10/15 RT sesssions. That concludes the treatment on the brain (small cell can be there without being detected so this is as precaution). He just has one last week of treatment on his lungs to go. It has been harder to live with the RT than he had hoped. His head and face look severly sunburned and he is sore and itchy all the time no matter what cream we use. He is also suffering with nausea and heartburn dispite the meds. His appetite has gone again as it did with the chemo but it is worse as he just cannot eat hot food at all. He cannot eat much of anything really, not even the smoothies that I had made initially. Cross fingers that after next week he will bounce back a bit.

Next thing will be waiting for the scan to confirm state of play. I am praying for a few good months before we have to re-live the nightmare. I keep telling myself miracles do happen and I am interested in finding out more about Immunotherapy, although I am not sure that this is for small cell.

Does anyone know?