Fluid in the lungs, or the sac around the lungs is serious, but not as serious as cancer, regardless of the cause. His doctors should be looking first at antibiotics with some but not tremendous effectiveness, or a drain to the exterior of the chest or to his stomach I believe (stent.) It sounds like with this patient they are going to work on his limbic system which I thought would be a final step but perhaps the surgeons have a good track record with this type of treatment. At least it should get him ambulatory. Would you be kind enough to mention the name of the chemo drug he got in what seems like an advanced trial? My dad aslo has prostate cancer and mets(tastises). I believe they said blastoma, but he keeps to himself about it extreemly much. Pain meds allows him to still bowl and fish. I believe he should be on lacunin and keytruda. Point being that this is just to fix a pneumonia type situation and the patient should continue to battle the cancer with chemo and surgery.
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