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87 year old dad with gastric cancer

Post a new topicby livingwith on Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:24 pm

my dad was incidentally diagnosed with gastric ca 8/2008. since he had smoked so much in the past and he is overweight and 87 i did not wanted him to go thru surgery, since it is a major surgery. i made sure he thinks we had treated an ulcer that if not treated might get complications later on, because i don’t want him to, in top of it to be depressed, so drs and i decided to go with chemo and radiation only,last october was the worst month ever, he became very weak, and had shortness of b...Read the full article
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Re: 87 year old dad with gastric cancer

Post a new topicby klewis157 on Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:55 am

May I ask what stage your father was diagnosed with?
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