My daughter was diagnosed with a sarcoma on her leg before Christmas unfortunately the radio therapy hasn’t work and her leg will be amputated Nect week , we found out today that the sarcoma has spread to her lungs and will need to start chemotherapy treatment after the amputation she is 30 years old I was wondering if there was any other treatment out there other than chemotherapy
thanks
Hi
Sorry to hear about your daughter, I can only imagine how a parent would feel in a case like this as it is my wife who has Leiomyosarcoma.
In the case of metastatic tumours (like with my wife) chemotherapy is generally the first treatment that will be tried because when it is successful it kills cancer cells where ever they are. My wife has had two lots of chemotherapy both of which could be considered succesful though the first one caused other issues - that were fixable fortunately - even if it meant more hospital stays and operations.
The second type of chemotherapy rendered my wife's cancer stable with minimal side effects in treatment and that is the happy state we find ourselves in 6 years down the line - living with cancer is our new normal.
If we look at the treatment pages here we can see as well as surgery and chemotherapy there can also be radiotherapy and targeted therapy. For my wife radiotherapy was never an option since the cancer is too widespread in her lungs but the chemotherapy seems to have worked for her. It is perhaps a little bit reassuring to know that there is the possibility of targeted therapy if the cancer started to grow again.
<<hugs>>
Steve
