Topic: Mother stage 4, no blockage or jaundice - any others?  My
mother was diagnosed last month (nov 2006), has stage IV bile
duct cancer, all of her liver is involved, innumerable tumors,
metastasis to lungs also. No symptoms except fatigue and
tenderness of liver until about a week ago - now constantly
fighting fevers, chills, nausea - horrible. We started chemo
this week  (Gemzar, Xeloda), just to alleviate symptoms, hoping
for some respite, hoping the chemo doesn't make her quality of
life worse. Not really hoping for a cure, though I know others
would, but she has autoimmune hepatitis and various autoimmune
issues that most doctors don't even understand and I don't
believe it would help her to drag her to more doctors, tests,
procedures. She's only 64, wants so badly to see my 4-yr old
daughter (her only grandchild) grow up, but we're realists, and
she's too fatigued and nauseous to do much. We have the best
care from NYU and Sloan Kettering here in NY. After researching
for weeks, I can't find any case