Dear Overseasdaughter,

While my Aunt did go the route of having radical surgery after her diagnosis, she chose to do nothing three years later after her recurrence diagnosis. I've never written about the sad downward turn that her body took along the way on this Board because I thought it might be too disturbing to all of our friends who were and continue to fight so hard. We were told that my Aunt would live three months after her recurrence diagnosis. She survived for ten months and her cancer went much the same route as the people that Gary mentioned above- certainly spreading internally and eventually exposing it's ugliness as it broke through the skin.

If there is anything I can do to help you, answer any of your questions, feel free to e-mail me. My Aunt passed two and a half months ago. I can handle talking about this now. If I can help you, I'd like to.

Hugs,
Lisa