Don, to be quite honest with you, it does help....for a while. My sister (51) died with lung cancer and about midway through her batttle she was prescribed Marinol. It did help for a while. Strangely, it increased her appetite for fish, shrimp, crab legs, any kind of seafood. I thought this very odd because she had a normal consumption of fish, etc., until them and it seemed to put her craving into overdrive. Who knows, it may work in this instance. And after a diagnosis of cancer, it can't hurt to try. I believe the secret is in the kinds of food you eat so you might want to take that into consideration. Search out healthy foods with a lot of good vitamins. God bless you and your family and God does answer our prayers, we just have to begin to talk to Him and He will listen. He is the best listener I know. He is going to be up all night anyway!