Ovarian cancer..this sucks...?

my boyfriends sister has ovarian cancer.she found out a year ago at age 28.she had her ovarys removed and went through kemo.she went to get a check up recently and found out that it spread to her lung.. and now to her intestines..she was told she had a year to 5 years to live.. now a different doctor said she had 6 months to a year to live.. shes 29 a pediatricion and a well loved person.. my boyfriend seems to be taking this pretty well. but everytime we get more bad news about it i see how it just kills him...i want to confert him..but hes the kind of person that just srugs it off and dosent want to talk about it.. any suggestions? also i wanted to know..what are the chances of her pulling threw and living longer than 6months to a year..

there really isnt anything you can say, jsut need to be there for him as much as possible, and talk about her, see her as much as possible, in a positive way, there really is no point talking about the actually illness, but talking about the good old time, from when they were kids, maybe find out a special time or place from their childhood, maybe you can do somthing specail for them to havesome time just for them and bring back memories of happier times

so sad. its all about her health and what her body can handle.. best of wishes

The cancer has metasized (spread to many parts of the body), it is very safe to say that she will never recover from this and that will with all probabilty unfortunantely die within a year.

Comforting him will be hard as you could imagine is always that case with this sort of situation. But I wouldn't try to confront him about opening up or anything. Casually offer your support and if he doesn't want to talk about it, then let him be. Different people have different ways of dealing with things. Just give him time, and keep doing what you are doing.

Miracles can happen. Keep the faith

I agree with Davey.

don't listen to others that say she's got no chance..

THEY don't know.. DOCTOR'S don't know either..
look at Lance Armstrong, he was litterally in his death bed and now he is in remission!!! That is why they are called miracles.. just keep praying for her and don't lose faith..

good luck.

Your boyfriend's sister has a long journey ahead of her. Men and women handle this type of thing very differently. Women connect with one another. Men tend to deal from a distance. If your boyfriend doesn't want to talk about this, don't force the issue. He might be uncomfortable talking about it. He might just want things to be "normal" and feels it will be, if the cancer stays out of the conversation. Maybe being with you is an escape for him, a place he can get away from the reality that his sister is dying...He knows you are there for him. Be a good listener. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I realize your friend's sister is dealing with ovarian/lung cancer, but Cancer is Cancer. When we who are diagnosed first hear those words, "you have cancer", we all go through a devastation that's hard to explain.

It depends upon how strong and determined she is. One thing to try is - 3 - Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. 13 The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. (If you find this useful, copy it and give it to a friend. Somebody got to Yahoo and they delete this as soon as they find it) Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. 14 Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. 15 He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. 16 Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since 鈥?more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.