My mother was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma in Jan 2004. After 6 months of chemo , she was started on Iressa. The drug worked like a miracle and all her cancer was gone in 2months. After more than 4 yrs of being cancer free, she recently started being more fatigued, depressed, had slurred speech, memory loss symptoms. Contrast MRi of brain indicates very tiny spots indicating met to the brain. She no longer can talk and has lost her speech. She recognizes everyones, smiles, occassionally says a few words. She can no longer take food from mouth or take care of herself.
Any recommendations what should be the next step. She is in India and thanks to internet we found out about Iressa which gave 4 more yrs to her.Its extremely hard to see her suffer like this. I pray to God not to make her suffer. But if there is anything we can try , we would like to.
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