If there is anyone that can offer advice - please reply!
My mom has been battling stage 4 lunger cancer for 2 1/2 years. She had very good quality of life on Tarceva for nearly the entire time. In April we learned the cancer was back and so began the roller coaster of the past 7 weeks. My mother was re-diagnosed with new mets in her liver, brain, spine and arm. 7 weeks ago - she developed pneumonia and ended up in the hospital. During her stay - they found the arm and brain mets. She had radiation for both - but the doctor was holding out hope that if she received radiation for those - that she would be a candidate for a new trial drug if she got stronger. In the meantime - she never did get stronger and her doctor told us 2 days ago that her liver was too consumed with cancer to undergo any further treatment. Plus she has had some clotting that eliminates the possibility of her using Avastin.
Now we are left with basically no hope because her doctor has said that all drugs go through the liver and her liver is not functioning well enough to undergo any new therapy.
Has anyone ever had this experience? Should we seek another opinion? Is there ANY hope?? She has been at Mass General for treatment so we thought she was in the best hands - but now we feel as though there were a lot of missteps along the way.
Please help! I just can't believe my mom is going to die from this. She was on vacation 8 weeks ago and now we are left with no hope!