Hello Everyone...
I am new to the board and Iamlooking for any and every bit of information that I can get. My 70 year old mother has just been diagnosed with Metastatic Carcinoma and after a petscan yesterday...there was no primary found. They said there was so many spots in her liver that there were too many to count. She is starting Chemotherapy next week: Taxol and Carboplaint coctail once every 3 weeks for 9 weeks, then they will do another CT scan to view the results. She is a very spiritual person and has a tremendous belief in God. My mother has suffered her whole life with Asthma and Emphysema and was recently diagnosed with Spinal Stenosis with means her spine is deteriorating..but through this she is still positive...beautiful spirit and an all around great person. The blood tests however, makes no sense to me. They said that her blood tests came back strong and really good but they detected markers in her blood that are related to Ovarian Cancer...she has a full hysterectomy over 20 years ago. My parents just lost everything to hurricane Katrina and we felt so helpless. They are staying at my brothers house and she went to another doctor in another town to check op a hernia in her stomach and that is where the doctor noticed that her liver had spots...My mother averages 10 doctors visits a month and has had every test known to man and about 1 surgery a year and I am floored as to why this was never detected. I am trying to be as strong as she is about this, but it is so hard living with the unknown. I live in Alaska and my whole family is down south so I really feel disconnected with everything. I am just needing one story of hope from someone who has beat the odds with the same liver cancer that has lived past the 6 month to a year prognosis...this can give me some hope that she can come through this. Thank you for letting me ramble on...everyone on here seems to have great strength and it is nice to know that there are people who we can lean on during this fight through life! God bless each and everyone of you...