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Is she in her right mind or does she have dementia and needs someone else to do the thinking for her?
She does not need to be on chemo at her age 90. Your sister needs to be made to understand this. As a cancer survivor yourself maybe she will listen to you and what your experiences were and realize that to put a 90 year old through such an ordeal is wrong.
Beyond that, assuming you and your sister are on good terms, I would try to get information from the oncologist on (a) prospects for chemo slowing advance of the cancer, and (b) estimates for length of life. Discussing side effects on a 90 year old woman would also be a primary topic of conversation.
This is a start for also researching the issue:
https://www.foundationforwomenscancer.org/gynecologic-cancers/cancer-types/primary-peritoneal/
I assume you're concerned that you (and apparently your sister) don't have legal authority to contact the oncologist. Can you convince your sister to participate in a conversation with the oncologist so both of you can discuss your mother's prospects simultaneously, despite the fact that there apparently isn't a medical POA document in iplace?
When my mother was D'X'ed with breast cancer, my sister, father and I discussed it with my sister's gynecologist, who also D'X'ed my mother and made our decision not to put Mom through the horrible ordeal of chemo at her age, which was then in her mid-80's. Mom just took Tamoxifen, and lived another 2 years w/o the scorched earth treatments chemo entails.
None of us had any legal documentation to do so, but the gynecologist wasn't a stickler for legal documentation, and my sister had already been treating with her.
Again, POA is to go by the principles wishes. If Mom's POA says no to extrodinary measures, then u don't do chemo.
There is no dignity in chemotherapy. It's horrible, even when you are younger and in good health. I would never do it again and have written my will so that I WON'T have to do it again should it return and I'm not 100% there, mentally. My POA knows what I do and don't want.
You need to talk to sis, and mom if she's capable. Since sis is invoking POA--my guess is mom can no longer make her own healthcare decisions.
Be gentle with sis--I'm sure she struggled with this decision. Once she sees how very, very sick a 90 yo gets on chemo--she might make a 180 and have her quit it.
Gently approach sis about Hospice. At this stage of mom's life, it is probably the kindest and best choice.
Would sister read Atul Gawande's book Being Mortal?