thank you very much for the information you guys. my mom has not been eating that much lately. i know we have Ensure here in MNL hopefully i can get her to drink it. it saddens me to see her slowly losing her liveliness and beauty. getting her to stop smoking is easy, whats hard is getting her to eat more. my mom's a doctor too though she specializes on dermatology. i think she hasnt done further test other than her biopsy. her doctor's on leave for 3 weeks. by then she'll get her treatment. ill keep you guys posted. thanks again.