Expert: Claes-Gustaf Nordquist, M.D. - 3/16/2010

Question
My wife was opinioned with a cervix cancer , very weird, the cancer cells in her cervix where like lungs cells, very rare case, not operable, she went through 5 months of chemotherapy, radiation, and finely braquitherapy, against all the medical expectations she survived,the cancer disappeared totally and there was no trace of metastasis in any of her other organs. This was in December 2008. In of 2009 she started with very strong headaches, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor 4-5 cent, she was operated in January and all the tumor was removed, she went through 10 sessions of radiotherapy again.  Now, last week she started with very strong pains in her right leg, between her knee and her waist, today she is consulting her brain surgeon and her oncologist, what chances are that it might be bone cancer, is so what would be the best drug to ebb her strong pains?

Answer
That is a distinct possibility unfortunately. I never give pain killing drug advice here since strictly speaking it is outside my area of expertise here.  But if indeed her cancer has spread to her thigh bone local radiation therapy there should be able to relieve her of a lot of her pain. However any cancer there too is not a good sign unfortunately.


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