My mom’s throat cancer spread to her bones.
My mom was diagnosed with p16+ oropharyngeal cancer last April. She went through 40rad sessions and had several cisplatin infusions. From the start they told us that her prognosis was very good. She’s 56, was 156lbs when this started, went to the gym twice a day. She was the healthiest person in our family. After the diagnosis , she had an incredibly hard time during treatment. Had a PEG tube in for several months. At one point she ended up at he hospital on intravenous nutrition because she’d throw up everything. Even what went into her tube. To make a long story short, the first PET scan after treatment showed a couple of nodules in her left lung, they biopsied that and it came back positive for cancer.
After that they tested her pdl1 so see if she was a candidate for immunotherapy and she isn’t. The last PET scan this month showed that the cancer is now in her hip bone, lung and there’s a lesion at the base of her skull as well. I’m devastated. I don’t know if I should push for trials or not. Don’t know if it’s worth spending whatever time she has left in the hospital, following strict medical protocols, and possibly adding on symptoms to maybe gain a few months…. Has anyone here had any experience with throat cancer that spread to their bones? Everywhere I look it says we have less than 2yrs . Her cancer is spreading fast. We were just diagnosed less than 18mo ago and now here we are, my momma is terminal.