My mother had a complete hysterectomy almost two years ago. At that time the doctors told her that she was clear of any cancer and that it had been confined to the uterus. Not too long after that her cancer was "recurrent" and she went through a round of chemo - they really wanted to operate at that time (Jan 2007), but she also has CLL (chronic lymphocytic leukemia - which is in remission). The chemo that she had finished for this (nearly a year before her hysterectomy) really threw her white count for a loop and her white count was not good enough to risk having a surgery.
This chemo did not work. Neither did the oral hormone medicines (I forget the names of these - maybe tamoxofin and megase?). She finally had surgery in October of 2007. The cancer was large and was spread around her entire abdomen. She had to have a colostomy done during surgery due to the placement of the tumors.
She had 10 days of radiation about 8 weeks after her surgery.
Within two months all of the cancer had grown back. She started on a chemo that attacked her hemoglobin, whites and platelets so badly that they could not get the recommended doses in.
She finally had another CT scan done about 1 month ago showing that there are now tumors and/or lesions everywhere - all through her abdomen, spleen, lungs, liver, etc.
My mother does not ask enough questions and she does not want to know what her prognosis is. She is going to do whatever her oncologist tells her to do without question because he is the doctor.
She has started on yet another kind of chemo (I beleive Doxil). She has had one dose and will get another one next week.
I have no idea what "stage" cancer her's was considered at the time of surgery because she didn't ask. I know that she can't have long to live but really have no idea. I wish that I could talk to her more about this, but she has made it quite clear that she does not want to know her prognosis.
Sorry this is so long. Is there anyone out there who has gone through anything like this and has any information or words of wisdom for me?
Thank you so much for reading,
caringk
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