Please if there is any chance for your mom - take it - don't wait until it is too late. As for the doctor saying there is nothing else they can do…they all say that sooner or later. There are other places and other treatments. There are things that can make it easier to tolerate the chemo. Things that most oncologists will not admit to, much less advise. I had just gotten an appointment for the man I love at CTCA and before I could get him there he went into the hospital to be treated for anxiety and they changed his medication and mixed medication until he was so messed up. Then the doctor here refused to treat him because he would not sign a DNR. They had given him Ativan and he was allergic to it. They gave it after being told this. As a result of the doctor refusing to treat him he never got the antidote and we were never even told about it. Instead of giving that to him they shipped him off to another hospital against his will and then they continued to give him pain medication to calm his anxiety. They gave him so much it killed him. They say it was the cancer but I know better I was there. I saw what ignoring the anxiety did. I saw what taking hope from him did. There are places like CTCA that don't take hope away and are willing to try other things. They treat the person and treat them like a person not a disease. Go for it please. If I had only known a week earlier I am convinced he would still be alive and I would not have this hole inside of me. I would not be questioning my judgment and my lack of action. It is a nightmare to live with everyday. I see him die over and over and I know it did not have to be that way. There is always some hope. It may be small but grab onto it and nurture it don't let anyone take it away. Lillian