I can only pray others out there are fairing as well as can be expected with this terrible disease. My mom was feeling ill for months until abdonminal pain forced her into the ER where the promptly asked how long she had been jaundice. They live in FL and she (nor anyone around her) never noticed, just thought tanned :-} Couple surgeries to discover the cancer and off to Jacksonville Mayo. Great place. Many tests over weeks to determine if she was operable and she was. Immediately checked in and cancer removed BUT when the doc was in they sampled some spots... at first, during the surgery, the report was they were negative but second test of them later found them malignant. As most of you have found, this is a very agressive cancer, so I am told. The doc indicated during the week of the recovery that if he'd known the spots were cancerous before the operation, he'd not have performed it... my Mom has watched a few friends go thru chemo and does not want to have anything to do with it. We go back in a few weeks to talk to an oncologist but we're (mom's sons) expecting relatively bad news. My research has turned up that an elevated pH can effect tumors - is this urban legend?