Thanks, dragondawg & catty, we're still waiting to hear from the vet tomorrow, but in all honesty we aren't holding out much hope because of how quickly he's deteriorating, and how far spread the diseased cells are. I didn't read the hospital report thoroughly until this evening (I think was still in shock when I had to sign off on it). It was worse than I thought. They know that his lungs are full of tumors, the largest being 9 cm, about the size of a baseball. Numerous smaller nodules are scattered throughout his lungs. His left front leg & toes already show damage from the lesions. Both his regular vet and the specialists commented (about the xrays) about how rapidly it is spreading. In fact, this hospital is a teaching clinic, and they told us they took additional xrays of his legs to use for instructional purposes, because they so rarely see something like this.
If it was a case with an isolated tumor, we would consider treatment, but even the doctors didn't seem to think that he would survive that.
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