Hi everyone! 

I'm 23 years old currently in college and hoping to go to university next year. Back in June my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 incurable lung cancer that had spread within his chest. It was a shock to our entire family.

His full diagnosis was: T3 N3 M1a squamous cell lung cancer. 

Palliative treatment (chemo and radiotherapy) was offered and he accepted the treatment. Treatment started in July - radiotherapy on his back as the tumor in his lung was "munching" on his spine and it seemed to work as his pain eased. Chemo started the same time, and after two cycles he had a routine scan. Sadly 4 days after his scan (two weeks ago), on a saturday, he was called into hospital as the scan had shown deveolpment of a right subclavian and axillary vein thrombosis and needed immediate treatment to thin his blood. He is now on blood thinning injections - which I administrate every night. The scan also showed progression in his underlying cancer with increased changes around the T2 and 3 vertebrae, the development of a new bone metastasis within the body of T10 and an increase of the disease on the body and pedicle of T9. Also there is an increase of the existing pulmonary metastases. 

The doctor has changed his chemo over to docetaxel chemo - has anyone had this type before?

Our family is so disheartened by the news recetly, we're not sure how much time he has left or how bad this is. We know it's not good, but there's a lot of big words that scare us. 

Any advice would be greatly appericiated!