Hi everyone,

I am writing on behalf of my boyfriends mum. Unfortunately she has stage 4 lung cancer which has now spread to her gallbladder and bones. She has just finished her first round of chemo. I need to also point out at this point that his mum is also a twice breast cancer survivor. This new lung cancer is primary and not connected to the previous 2 breast cancers. Before she started her chemo the hospital tried 'imunotherapy' on her as an alternative kind of treatment. Unfortunately, the immunotherapy was not woking quickly enough as the cancer was spreading so after only having one imunotherapy session they took her off it and switched her onto chemo asap. The chemo has paused the cancer in terms of its maintained and it has not grown to other places. However, once the chemo wears off we have been warned that she will decline quickly. At the moment there is no further plan for more chemo. The doctors want to scan her in a month to see if there are any changes. Essentially they basically have told us that survival rate is up to 2 years and it feels a bit like they are saying there is nothing else we can do so go and enjoy the next few years of your life as those will sadly be your last.