Is there a set amout of chemotherapy a lung cancer can receive?
You ask several questions having to do with chemotherapy in lung cancer patients. From your description it sounds like your mother's cancer is metastatic. If so I am very sad to write that yes, the outlook for your mother is as bleak as it seems. Metastatic lung cancer is very hard to treat and almost always can not be cured and in the end causes the patient's death.
The total amount of chemotherapy given varies from person to person depending on whether it works or not. If the cancer does not grow or shrinks while a patient receives it, it will usually continue if the patient can tolerate it. If the cancer gets worse while the patient is receiving chemotherapy, usually they will stop that chemotherapy and try a different one, if there is one to offer. If the cancer continues to grow despite all the reasonable chemotherapies, then there may not be another choice. At that point hospice is a very reasonable choice to emphasize comfort.
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