4 years ago my mum had surgery and radiotherapy for jaw cancer, a year ago it came back and meant more surgery leading to an inability to eat/drink and swallow her own saliva. for the past year she has suffered intolerably with infections to the lung, and a lack of normal life. a couple of months ago, lung cancer was diagnosed - still leading from the original tumour. this has been surgically removed. she is now in severe pain in her spine and we await the mRI scan with fear and tripidation. i'm pretty sure it will come back with a spinal tumor. all this points to the fact that the original jaw cancer was not caught in time (due to a lack of insight by her dentist and doctor), and has slowly spread (as it is not a virilant cancer) to other areas of her body. reading other stories, i can't help but feel that with a non-virilant cancer, nutritional help must be of utmost importance. other cancer infected friends/colleagues feel the same. however, i am yet to find anyone who has the problem of having to feed through a tummy tube (RIG or PEG), rather than orally, which is so limiting in what you can take in. Does anyone have any advice on how nutritionally, with the limitations of a tummy tube, we can try adn help slow down/stop this cancer spreading? i totally believe that nutrition is of utmost importance, but her doctors/nutritionists seem to only be concentrating on her having the correct number of calories to make sure she maintains body weight. this is like been kept on a life support system. we need more than this. her life is so awful. please can anyone help? thank you.