CancerCompass message board discussion started by Theonetjs on 4/12/2005 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,1872,0.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ My father was diagnosed with biliary tree cancer (cholangiocarcinoma) on March 4, 2005. (He is 65 years old). He was severley jaundiced, was losing weight and very tired so he went to the doctor. He was admitted to the hospital immediately. He underwent a battery of procedures and tests including the insertion of an external biliary drain to remove the bile that was backing up in his system. The tumor in his liver is the size of a man's fist and takes up the entire left lobe of his liver. It is not resectable and they are treating him with chemotherapy to try prolong his life. He has been home for a few weeks after a 30 day stay in the hospital and is skin and bones, has no energy, and is unable to go outside the house without the aid of a walker or wheelchair. I am interested in learning as much as I can about this disease and how to be as supportive to my family as I can be. His doctors have downgraded his prognosis from less than a year to "weeks" - whatever that means. What should I expect to happen? Theonetjs Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT