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My name is Rob, and yesterday our family had the biggest shock come to us, My Dad has been told he has lung cancer which has spread to his spine, even though it was caught fairly early they are doing a CT scan next week on his lower body to see if its gone anywhere else, the Dr said yesterday its not curable, he goes on holiday in a few weeks, and the Drs are saying go enjoy yourself and have treatment when you get back.

They have told him they will be giving him radio therpy . my questions are, is there a rough figure as to how long he will live? and the other bomb shell for my Mum is her brother has been diagnosed with brain cancer which has spread though his whole body, he has been given weeks to live. Any ideas how to comfort my mum, learning alll this in the space of a week has hit her hard..

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  • Hi rob I'm so sorry to hear about your dad and the loss of your uncle, I'm going through a similar thing, my dad has just been diagnosed with non small cell lung cancer with plural effussion and the cancer has gone to his chest wall, like yourself we have not been given a stage all we know is that it can't be operated on but meeting with oncologist on Monday to discuss chemo and radiotherapy which he will hopefully start in next wk or so! It's just such a rubbish time isn't it!! I wish your dad all the best and thoughts are with your whole family x 

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  • Hi rob I'm so sorry to hear about your dad and the loss of your uncle, I'm going through a similar thing, my dad has just been diagnosed with non small cell lung cancer with plural effussion and the cancer has gone to his chest wall, like yourself we have not been given a stage all we know is that it can't be operated on but meeting with oncologist on Monday to discuss chemo and radiotherapy which he will hopefully start in next wk or so! It's just such a rubbish time isn't it!! I wish your dad all the best and thoughts are with your whole family x 

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