Hi. Sadly, New to this community. My 57 year old partner has recently been diagnosed with secondary lung cancer. She has 6 or 7 tiny 1-2mm growths on each lung and starts chemo next month. She got through bowel and liver cancer last year and was told she was in remission so this recent news has floored us.
I cannot get my head around how such tiny areas cannot be controlled for more than the 12 month prognosis. I understand it's incredibly complex but these growths have apparently only developed over 2-3 months as they didn't show on her pre-Christmas scans in November. I don't know what i want to ask in all honesty - is it really such a rapid decline from this point? She's feeling great pre treatment and it's hard to believe she only has around 12 months.
Hi PS67 I am sorry to hear about your partner. I know this must of come as a terrible shock for you both. I remember the day they told me my cancer had come back in my lungs, I was absolutely devastated, just shell shocked.
Let’s try and concentrate on the positives, I know you will be thinking what positives? The pre Christmas scan was clear, so this is small. Your partner is having treatment, where there is treatment there is always hope. And she is fit and well at the moment, a good basis to start treatment.
I feel for you both, your partner has been through such a lot already, it doesn’t seem fair that you are both having this thrown at you again. But I have seen lots of people who have done really well on treatment and have outlived their prognosis. You have to keep hoping.
If you need to talk to someone the macmillan support line is available 7 days a week from 8am until 8pm tel 0808 808 00 00 and please also join the Lung cancer forum as it is more active than this group. There are people in the lung group that are supporting loved ones like yourself.
