Mum was diagnosed with stage 4 gastric cancer in October and recently has had severe throat pain, she’s struggling to eat , brush her teeth , moving her tongue even hurts it’s just got worse and worse . Went to doctors today she’s certain the cancer has spread and said her lymph nodes in neck are huge and likely to be a cancer mass and that’s why she’s got bad throat pain. Mum’s on every pain killer imaginable including slow release OxyCodone and the oral version too but nothing is touching the sides , does anyone else have such bad sore throat with lymph cancer in neck and what can we do to help??Mums hungry but struggling to eat anything and in 24/7 pain it’s awful! Doctor can only up pain meds nothing else she can do she said! Also what’s the life expectancy now mums cancer has spread to lymph nodes I need to know for my piece of mind and to look after mum as she’s only got me , she was giving 3/6 months in October but has gone further than this without symptoms except throat pain so still all feeling normal expect for the awful throat problem! thank you
