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Cancer Question: Small Cell Lung Cancer

kmkommes

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A best friend of mine texted me yesterday and basically said:

He is not ready to talk about it but wants me to know.
His wife was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer last week.
She was misdiagnosed with pneumonia in October. Due to other symptoms and rapid deterioration they pushed for additional testing.
She starts chemo today.

So that’s basically it. I can only imagine she is in rough shape given the drive for further diagnosis and then the immediate start of chemo. My buddy and his wife are biomedical engineers. Not that it matters, but they are very smart super healthy people. She is 43 years old, non smoker.

Quick research shows people last 2-7 months and an extremely poor 2 year survival and low single digit 5 year survival.

I am looking for real world experiences similar to this and HONEST feedback.
 
the conservative atheist said:
What's with all this cancer in young people? Processed food? Vaccinations? Sorry to hear about your friend.
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Not just cancer. When I was a kid in school there was maybe one person in the entire school with the die-a-beat-us.

And, not just foods - Environmental factors, too. Beverly Hills High has an oil rig on property! Can you say Thyroid Cancer?

When I Was in middle school, we watched an oil rig fire burn for days in the hills over the town before Red Adair put it out. The same era of Smog Alerts and the spawning of the EPA.

Humans make for a dirty, although convenient, world. Many things are out there are trying to kill you,
 
I've got no answers on that particular cancer, but they will need support. Chemo is brutal.

Make them meals she likes, even if she loses her appetite. He can eat it. The only thing I could stomach/handle was fresh fruit. Chemo burned the fuck out of my throat. There are many chemo drugs, she may be effected differently.
 
Exact same scenario played out for a neighbor. Goes to hospital, treated for pneumonia November of 2023, goes back in because it got worse in December when they determined he had stage 4 small cell lung cancer. He skipped treatment and made it to the end of January. He was early 70s and prior smoker so not the same in that regard.
 
My Brother has 30 + years in oncology R&D, there are drugs on the market that he invented. So she needs to be on the newest drugs, the newer the drug the better it works. Chemo is the same way, the newer chemo is easier on the patient and they don't lose their hair, but the insurance companies always want to start the patient on the older drugs because they are cheaper. The whole healtcare system is driven by insurance companies because they dictate how the doctors treat the patient.
 
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