Hi, My husband was diagnosed with the gallbladder cancer at the end of September. He had no symptoms except that he turned yellow and that is when he went for CAT scans and such. He began chemo two weeks ago. It took us a while because the drs also diagnosed him with PSC, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. People with PSC also known as Walter Payton's disease only have about a 10 year life expectancy. It is an autoimmune thing. The DRs tried to decide whether to do a liver transplant and remove the gallbladder too. But cancer is in lymph nodes also and he has been rejected from the liver transplant because of the risk of recurrence of the gallbladder cancer. So if cancer doesn't get him the PSC will. I found out that mostly women get gallbladder cancer and that was too strange for my understanding. I am rambling on. Anyways he is being treated with GemZar and then another chemo with radiation will be started several weeks after he gets through the Gemzar. They hope to shrink the tumor which is about 6.5 cm. and then remove it. Drs are concerned about surgery causing liver failure. So we stand here with one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel. My husband is only 51. We have been married 33 years. We are lucky to be at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. It is only 40 minutes from home. Everyone there is absolutely fantastic. My husband's dr even hugs him when we are done with our appt. We have been adding some holistic remedies to his diet. We just bought a juicer and we will be juicing too. It feels strange though emotionally. I feel very numb. I am trying to stay strong for our family. My son's who are 24 and 26 are very upset. My husband's mother lives with us. She is 80 and has Alzheimer's. She is still pretty lucid but this crisis has effected her very badly. I try not to think about what life will be like without him. It is too scary. I always thought that I would be the one who got cancer since every woman on my mother's side of the family has had every kind of female organ cancer that is known. I am not sure what I am going to do to cope with this.