My mum is 92. She has been diagnosed with primary hepatic flexure tumour with disseminated liver metastatses and nodal disease.
She chose not to have treatment. This was back in October
I feel because she decided (understandably) not to have treatment she has fallen off a cliff.
We still don't have any sense of what to expect, or even understand her cancer (we understand it is colorectal cancer that has spread to her liver - no one has ever explained what is meant by nodal disease). Macmillan came to her care home and gave her a book on end of life. And that is pretty much it.
At 92 she has other health issues (heart failure, hearing, poor mobility) but we do not know what symptoms we maybe should be increasingly look out for or anticipate.
I am planning for her to move to a care home to be closer to me (i live 200 miles away), initially we did not plan this as we feared not having treatment would mean only a few months, but who knows, pretty much operating in the dark anyway.
What is the experience of others who choose, especially at an old age, not to pursue treatment. There seems to be no support or even people to speak to just to understand specific diagnosis of cancer.
