When cancer treatment won't work how long does someone have to live? (node, chemo)
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I had an uncle who died April 3rd 1981.
He had been diagnosed with leukemia 14 months earlier.
But it varies from person to person and how fast the disease progresses and how their body responds to treatment.
What type? My dad was diagnosed with AML Leukemia 6/2005. Radical chemo - month in hospital. We heard remission by September, little did we know it wouldn't last long. I wish the doctors never used that word because when it returned (I doubt it was ever really gone) in November, we were shocked.
We started getting tested to donate stem cells; it didn't happen in December, by January 1st he had a fever & was admitted again. They ended up doing a PET scan & saw something on his liver & some where else; they couldn't biopsy because he'd bleed to death.
He was released from there to a local center for transfusions 1/18. Little did I know that 2nd center gave him just weeks to live, if that. Even with the questions I asked, they lied to me; said he could live months or more.
His PICC line got infected; they removed it. His arm blew up like Popeye & that was the decline. By the end of January he was rapidly declining; ended up passing 2/6/06. I'd called hospice in 2/3 his body was already shutting down; he was weak, couldn't get out of bed.
After he passed I got his records and found they didn't give him very long.
Hospice the the only ones who were truthful with me.
thanks..this is for a relative. he doesn't seem to understand what the doc tell him and it sounds like the docs don't know what to do.
? They should be able to tell him their suggested plan of action as well as rates of mortality and "typical" survival rates in a fairly straightforward way. If they don't, he should ask.
It's CLL leukemia. He was diagnosed around 10 years ago. He had his first treatments 2 to 3 years ago and didn't have many side effects. But now they have change the treatments for this second round and he is having trouble tolerating them, so they got spaced apart farther. The docs told him they weren't working like they hoped. His lymph nodes are enlarging again after briefly shrinking. He's a little hard to understand when he passes on info from the docs. He tends to mix things up a little in general, so if he hears a story from someone and then tells someone else, something can get added and taken away. But I got that the treatment isn't working as hoped.
It depends. Leukemia is quite fickle when spread and rate. Treatments vary, sometimes it will slow spread or stop the spread of cancer for a while.
It is anyones guess on how long someone can hold on. I am sorry you are facing this. This last week I lost a friend to cancer.
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