Problems with Cancer

[Librasforlunch]

My question is a very important question.  My mother of 40+ years has encountered cancer for the second time in her life.  She first developed breast cancer when I was too young to remember.  It was removed surgically and she was administered with chemotherapy. Now in her very weaken state, she is suffering from ovarian cancer which has now metastasized to her abdomen.  She has cried of a short stabbing pain that constantly presses on her intestines and stomach area.  When she brought this up to her physicians, they simply gave her more chemotherapy thinking that some of the cancer was not properly removed during the surgery.  
    
     However, in a recent examination they discovered that the pains she had been describing were due to both the large and the small intestines melting into a globular organ.  The way it was described,

“It was like a ball of intestines super glued together.  A layer of intestines, and another layer of super glue…they could not remove the tension”.

I’m suspecting that perhaps it was not the development of cancer that may have caused this; rather, I believe it was an excess administration of chemotherapy.  I’m not judging anyone of what could be later described as a “bad form of therapy”, but I’m simply begging to ask a question.  Is it possible to provide my mother with a complete transplant of both the large and small intestines?  Could there perhaps be an option of receiving maybe an animal transplant?  Anything at this point is worth trying!  We have already accepted the fact that maybe she cannot be helped and might possibly pass-away shortly within the next couple of months.  We only want to get rid of what’s becoming chronic torture for my mother.  We just want the pain to go away.  I need a surgeon who can give me answers.  She is about 5’2, a Hispanic woman who has both lost a great deal of weight and hope.  Can you help me?

Sincerely,

Roberto

[grendslori]

Roberto, I am so sorry to read your post. I lost my mother a few years ago to cancer that started in her rectum and spread to her spine. We were very close and it was hard to watch her go through the suffering that she had to endure. They would never consider doing a transplant on your mother. There is a good reason for that: after a transplant a patient is put onto immunosupressent drugs to kill most of the immune system, which is there to protect you from illnesses and bacterias and viruses. If they were to put your mother on those drugs, she would, more than likely redevelop cancer. In fact, some people,after having a transplant, do come down with cancer; they thought my own daughter had come down with cancer a few months after her heart transplant. I'm sorry to have to send off this news to you and your family. I wish you God's strength!

[orphanedhawk]

Allopathic medicine uses toxic drugs to treat people. In the proper doses these can help.
It's hard to know who will be assisted and who will be harmed.
I saw a study which claims 20% of liver transplant recipients can do fine without any immune suppression drugs. The question is how do they know which ones?

[pandysplace]

I am so sorry for the things that your mother and you are going through. I had a heart transplant 10 years ago. Unfortunately one of the criteria for getting an organ is to NOT have had cancer within the previous five years.
Also, the meds they put you on increase your risk of certain very "problematic" cancers.
Check with your doctor anyway... things change with time in the medical community, but go "hoping for the best and expecting the worst" in terms of the answer you will receive.

May God bless you and your family. I will keep you in my prayers.

[mammo]

I'm so sorry to hear of your mother's suffering and your worry.  I have to agree with the other posts.  Although they can transplant a small and large intestine, at this point it would do your mother more harm than good.  There is no reason for her to have to endure this much pain though.  If you can't get the doctors to control her pain, go to the hospital administrator and get this taken care of.  I would be questioning how her intestines got that way also!  It's not wrong to question doctors, and they need to be as many people die as a result of negligence.  I lost my son to medical negligence, and it is so hard to deal with when you know it didn't have to happen.  To just automatically administer more chemo without further testing is just plain wrong.  Something had to cause her intestines to fuse together like this, and cancer wouldn't have done it.  Sounds like a chemical cause to me!!  My thoughts and prayers to you and your mom.  God Bless........