My wife was diagnosed 2 years ago with a growth in her left lunng and a small metastasis in the spine.. she was given chemo and radiotherapy over 6 months and this initially stopped progression. However after 3 months it appeared in her right lung. She was then offered Immunitherapy which is at the cutting-edge if new treatment but early stages. It didn't work. She had 7 sessions every 3 weeks but it left her very weak with no appetite. This led very quickly to breathlessness followed by a 3 week stay in hospital. After one week back at home she developed bowel incontinence. She went back to hospital where they discovered pneumonia. She is now waiting to be transferred to the local hospice and has been put on a morphine pump. The detioration has been very rapid, over a few weeks.and unexpected as the cancer had not advanced greatly.st a few weeks. Together with lung drainage (twice) blood clots and chest infections thus gas been a period of very poor quality of life. It us difficult to identify at this stage whether the treatment was worth it when she may have had several more months of a decent life without it. We'll never know.
