My mother is 74 has just had a cancerous tumor found in her stomach stage 3 or 4. She has had breast cancer 3 times w/ one complete removal of a breast, radiation only with the breast cancer, she is diabetic, has high blood pressure, arthritis and has stents in her heart. The oncology surgeon doesn't think she is a canidate for surgery and she has had a specialist at md anderson confirm that and only recomends radiation, no chemo. My mom is pretty overweight which doesn't help. I am the youngest of 5 (age 40), which I have lost a sister 8 yrs ago from a stroke. I am going to be the one to see about everything that she is going to need. My dad is still with us at age 82 and is very active still, likes to do his thing and this sickness just brings him down. He gets where he can't deal with my mom. Anyway I guess my first question is I do work and I have a teenager and a daughter in college, 2 step children that has each a grandchild and I'm really not sure how I'm going to manage it all. I also have siblings that are not handling this news very well emotionally. I would like to try to have some real expectation of what I am up agianst so I can prepare myself and all the family members. I am planning to just try to get her to continue to keep life as normal as she can and just make everyday as special as I can. Besides for radiation, is there anything else that I can suggest to her? I have heard something about cellular zeolite, does anyone know something about it? I really would appreciate any helpful suggestions or comments.