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The only other option is after her 25th week of chemo and radiation, she can go to a hospital in Philly where they can insert a tube where the tumor is and zap it on target with chemo, which has a high success rate.
We've had plenty of "opinions", and the last one was from Sloan Kettering. I mean, that's one of the best places to get an opinion if you're gonna get one - that was our second opinion actually.
So long story short: if she doesn't go for this operation, she either just finishes an extra 10 weeks of radiation to prolong her life a few years, or she goes to Philly to get the chemo blast.
A friend of ours brought over some sort of cancer fighting serum from China (Chinese medicine) and said that people have been cured from this alone. I'm really not into these holistic remedies when it comes to such a deadly disease, but she's taking it like a champ.
I guess it's not my decision, but I hope she realizes that this is totally curable cancer - the doctor said he would bet anything that she would be cancer-free if she opts for the surgery.
*sigh*
I guess at this point, I'm just venting.
Perhaps the largest such series, from the Princess Margaret Hospital (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), demonstrated a 5-year actuarial survival of 27% (48% for mobile tumors).1 Not surprisingly, the Princess Margaret Hospital series showed better local control and survival rates for patients with less locally advanced disease. Interestingly, patients in this series who had clinical complete remissions were noted to achieve those remissions slowly (often at 4 to 8 months), suggesting that our current paradigm of waiting only 6 weeks after radiation therapy to proceed to surgery may underestimate the true benefits of RT. Several other studies have also demonstrated that longer periods between RT and surgery lead to higher rates of pathologic complete response (pCR), an observation that lends support to the concept of an approach with delayed or omitted surgery.
GET A SECOND OPINION.
Since you know someone with a colostomy bag, I wonder if Mother talking to her would help? At least it would provide more information as she makes a decision. The friend could tell her about her life now and answer questions. That might be more effective than you just telling Mom about her.