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Is Bladder Cancer Curable Through Radiation And Chemo?
My mother is 81 years old has stage 4 bladder cancer that has spread to her lungs.She is in hosiptal now because of infection and she also has a cathererd.Very prone to getting infections,,this is the second time she has been admitted to hosiptal since Thanksgiving...My question is the doctores want to give her radition and chemo in hopes of shrinking the tumor...my worry is that she is to weak to do this..I am a cancer surviver and went thru chemo and radioation..it really made me sick.......Just afriad that the chemo will lower her white cells and make her sicker..doctors here say she has 2 maybe 4 months left..I don't wanmt her to go thru anything that's going to make her sicker...but i have a brother and sister that this is the way to go...your advise please
Thu, 14 Aug 2014
Some aged people surprisingly tolerate treatments well, the best way to go about is start with radiation and low dose chemotherapy and based on how she tolerates, chemotherapy be discontinued and complete a course of 55 to 60 Gy radiation
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