two weeks ago my mother broke her femur, she was rushed to the hospital and had a pin put in. the only real information that has been relayed to me since i am 500 miles away has come from my mom and sister. they seem either to be unable to process the medical insight given to them by mom's caretakers, or they refuse to accept it. this is what i have gathered and or gleaned: they biop'd her femur and she has bone cancer. docs say that she has cancerous lesions thru-out entire body on all internal organs, even spleen. docs say that it is from breast cancer that has matastized to her lungs and liver (and bones). doc has located a growth along the channel between kidney and bladder. mom had lumpectomy, at that time doc says she would have taken more, but there was not a plastic surgeon present-she also said that she may go back in, but will need to arrange plastic surgeon. they went to release her from the hospital without the radical mastectomy, i insisted and she was more than happy to do the second surgery..... from this i am pretty sure that she is stage 4, but maybe 3b or 3c? her first oncology appt is next week and i have a feeling that even tho the doc will be frank with her, she won't accept that she has cancer, which may mean that she won't take the chemo seriously. Oh, the oncologist did tell mom that the chemo treatments will take about two years. please help me get some insight, or let me know if i am possibly wrong and the stage could be one or two.