My mum was diagnosed in April, I’m not sure what stage as we have never been told but she had surgery to remove it, it the metastasised to one vertebrae on her spine and the lining of her lungs.
She was then started on Pembrolizumab which she is 3 doses in.
She has had fairly minimal side effects but I feel things are getting worse. She was breathless to start with but this has got worse, she was walking a lot previously and now gets breathless from bending over. She keeps feeling like she needs to clear her throat (not coughing much), she went to the doctors and her throat was covered in a yellow type mucus. And she gets crackly type sound breathing when she lays on her left side. The oncologist sent her for a chest X-ray a couple of weeks ago and said the results were an area on the bottom of her right lung that looked like infection but as she didn’t have a fever they would watch and wait instead of giving antibiotics. She has also been prescribed anti fungal tablets. The thing is last time they said about an area on her lung from inflammation it turned out to be from more cancer. I’m completely in panic mode as I’m worried this is all happening because the Pembrolizumab isn’t working and things are progressing? Or is it the Pembrolizumab starting to work ? I’m really worried : (
