when breast cancer has spread to brian liver lungs and bone how much time do you have?
Thursday, December 17th, 2009 at
4:18 am
carolina asked:
21/2 years ago my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer from taking hormone replacement therapy for menopause they removed part of the breast in may 2009 they found they cancer returned they did brain surgery to remove the cancer from the brain how ever they told her it has spread to lungs liver and bones. On 9/11/09 they told her she is terminal and to start preparing for hospice. When the doctor tells you to prepare for hospice how long does she have left?
21/2 years ago my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer from taking hormone replacement therapy for menopause they removed part of the breast in may 2009 they found they cancer returned they did brain surgery to remove the cancer from the brain how ever they told her it has spread to lungs liver and bones. On 9/11/09 they told her she is terminal and to start preparing for hospice. When the doctor tells you to prepare for hospice how long does she have left?
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Very sorry to hear this.
From experience in working in Palliative Care wards, (and having father who died from Lung Cancer), once it spreads to the brain, then the patient is already stage 4 – thankfully your mother has survived that ordeal, but now she has to battle it in the liver, lungs and bones, unfortunately this is last stage. This is hard.
Once it is in the liver, there is little time because the liver is responsible for so many things in the body, along with the lungs.
I cannot give you a time frame, i am not God. But keep her comfortable, alot of pain medication will help her pass without being in pain.
In training we were taught some signs of approaching death.
1) Shallow and irregular breathing
2) Low urine output
3) Little or no appetite
and some more that i forgot.
My dad was diagosed with lung cancer – 4 months later he was dead. It spread to the liver and bones, and brain but my mother didn’t even tell me (i was 13).
May she have a peaceful passing. God bless you and your family