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Aggressive Cancer On Neck, Mass Growing, Spreading. Is The Tracheotomy A Must First?
My father has an aggressive cancer in his neck. The mass is growing and slowly closing his airway. It appears to have spread to the lungs. The doctors want to perform a tracheostomy below the voice box but they have to go through the mass. This can cause complications where he may stop breathing and die. They wish to do a biopsy at the same time. Is it possible to do the biopsy another way and then do chemo or radiation to minimize the mass? Is the tracheostomy a must first?
Mon, 28 Oct 2013
Hi, the malignancy is aggressive, and it is already closing the airway. In no time it may close the air way, and there will be no way for him to breath. is they conduct the trachiostomy the air way will be patent, and he can breath so long he is alive. Complication is the same for both the procedures. So let the doctors plan for his benefit. Thank you.
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