I don't know if this belongs on this message board, but I have a
question about panceratic cancer.......

My 86 year old grandmother has been dx with this, but over the past
two to three weeks she has improved greatly. She had yellow jaundice
very bad, could not eat, could not keep anything she did eat down,
and she would sleep 80% of the day away. We were told she probably
only had 1 to 3 months to live. Currently her yellow jaundice is
almost gone, she is eating almost regularly, however she has been
sick to her stomach the past couple of days, but she has been up
cooking dinner and being her normal stubborn self. I thought that if
you had this cancer (the doctors even said it was in it's 4th stage)
that you would be getting worse not better. I know cancer patients
have their good days and bad, but good WEEKS???? Since the doctors
have told us it is inoperable and since she is so old and weak that
chemo or radiation is not the answer as well, they haven't done
anything for her, so I am beginning to think that maybe this was a
mis-diagnosis? Is this possible? When she first went in to see the
doctor she was going because she thought she had a gallbladder attack
and the doctor thought so as well until they ran test and said that
it was cancer instead. A friend of the family said that maybe what
has been causing her nausea the past several days is the stint they
put in her. Does anyone have an opinion on this? Or has anyone
heard of a cancer patient getting this much better and staying this
much better for this amount of time? Any information would be
helpful. My mother is starting to get her hopes up that it is a mis-
diagnosis, and I don't want her bubble to get popped, I would like to
forwarn her that this is normal - IF it is.
Thank you.