insight into this type of cancer

Hi and welcome to the forum.  I am so sorry you have found yourself here and I hope we can support you and your family member.  It would help if you could let us know what the cancer is and it's site.  H&N cancers cover a whole range of localised areas in the H&N and there will be someone who has detailed experience of your relative's particular cancer.

Hi Pat. So sorry to hear this. The best place to get accurate advice is from your relative's medical team if they allow you to speak to them. But having said that there may be somebody on here who has experience of this so as Peter has said.....could you let us know what the cancer is.

It is in the throat and neck and now in the lympth nodes

Hi just posted above about it being in the throat and at the side of the neck and lymph nodes, don't like to ask my relative too much as it begins to feel like I am asking too many questions already and would like to understand it a bit more, I know it is terminal but just wanted to know would it just be painkillers at the moment until they get the tracheotomy 

Pat only their medical team can say with certain but a terminal diagnosis usually means that there is no treatment to attempt cure. Sometimes radiotherapy is used to shrink tumours to make the patient comfortable but this is a temporary stop gap. Analgesia might well be the only thing that can be offered. So sorry 

The tracheotomy is to enable breathing when the cancer blocks the normal airway at the back of the throat 

Hi

Thank you that's what I thought but I wasn't sure x

Yes I knew that, so it is just a case of waiting until that time comes I would assume,

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Best wishes. I hope your relative doesn’t suffer too much. It’s a horrid thing.