National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.

Well its official the cancer is in my mom's stomach now. It may have always been there but it is so rare for breast cancer to spread to her stomach that they never checked. They are changing her chemo to see if the can fight this cancer another way. The last chemo was shrinking the spots on her liver but only slowing the cancer in the bones, now we have this stuff in the stomach to worry about. Instead of going to get chemo every 3 weeks now she will be taking a pill twice a day. I don't know if it will have more or fewer side effects. I guess the hardest part of this is her doctor won't tell us what to expect...do we have a year with her? Three? Five? I know he doesn't know but he could at least give us an idea. I know that this is not something curable, but I feel like I let myself get optimisitic about the future when I should know better.