Worried for bro in law

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Hi all, I'm new to this group and to cancer.  We as a close family are just getting over the shock of my brother in laws lung cancer diagnosis.

He had a shoulder pain for about a year and finally last week went for a scan which showed up a shadow on his right lung. After a few scans he now knows that he has a tumour the size of a tennis ball in his right lung which has cracked two of his ribs. Also it has spread to the other lung with a cherry size tumour there. He is due to have a bio next week and they have offered him chemo and radiotherapy. But have told him it's terminal stage 4.

He is in tremendous pain so has been put on the highest dose of morphine he can have. He is 52 and has been a smoker for as long as I've known him. 

I feel so helpless for him and my husband, our boys and my mother in law. We are just broken. 

So amazing reading some of the posts on here, we are trying to stay positive for him and each other. 

  • Sending you hugs and strength to you and your family on this cancer journey , my partner also has right lung cancer and he has had chemo/immunotherapy he is just about to stray 20sessions of radiotherapy .

    Mamma

  • Thank you for your kind message. 

    Its comforting to know we aren't alone in this.

    Best wishes to you and your husband, hoping his treatment goes well 

  • hello Pip ,I am sorry you find yourself and your family coping with this ,I had a nodule removed from my lung last year which turned out to be 20% cancerous and i am due my follow up scan ,when i first came on here i was so scared but found people who could help ,and though i know how scary it is ,there are people on here who are more suited to help you than me ,do not stop posting people will help you through it all take care ,C.K