lung cancer diagnosis to death in 2 weeks?
Posted on Jul 05, 2010 under Lung cancer | 3 CommentsSomeone I know who had a major heart attack and five bypasses 4 years ago just died from lung cancer. I have some questions. He had been a heavy smoker till his heart attack and quit. Not too long before he died i noticed he started back but only a few cigs a day. He originally went in with that it looked to be pneumonia and they admitted him to hospital and put him on o2. well the next day they tell me there was a masson his right lung. I could tell he had been having trouble breathing, even with that o2. A few days later they did a bronchoscopy to biospy it and his lung collapsed, they had been able to get samples from both lungs before it happened. They moved him to icu where he was put on a vent ststem. He was not able to breathe on his own. Then a day or so later told us he had stage 3b non small cell lung cancer in both lungs and lymph nodes. He was not a surgical candidate and did not do well with even a baby dose of chemo due to his heart so they recomended hospice. He died one week after getting into hospice. This all happened so quick. Is this normal, did they purposely kill him? Everything just seems so quick to me
I kno it was the lung thing cause he was gasping for breath in the and and you could def tell by looking at his chest that he was breathing from one lung
