Hello Donhug and welcome to the forum.  So sorry about your mum.  It can sometimes  be difficult to know how long any individual cancer patient will have in terms of life expectancy; doctors often just cannot tell and they know that guesses may not be accurate as it can vary from one patient to another even when they have the same cancer at the same stage.  I have helped care for a few cancer patients and know how difficult it can be to know the answer to this question.  It probably doesn't help you but it may be just a case of watching and making the best of any time you are given.  I know you haven't asked for this advice but try to treat your mum as the same person she has always been as far as possible.  She will still have the same interests and - from my experiences again - terminally ill patients don't always like to have people tiptoeing around them (both literally and conversationally).  One of my neighbours in this situation was actually quite pleased when one of the council carers was slightly offhand about something as he said he was fed up with everyone else being so careful to be nice to him!Please do keep posting if you have any more questions or just want to let off steam and talk about your worries.  Others here may have more advice.  Best wishes.  Annie

Many thanks for ur reply. This is all unknown territory to me and I’m finding it all hard to navigate... its increasingly difficult as mum is unaware of the life expectancy prognosis as she hadn’t asked as I suspect she doesn’t want to know whic of course is a right I need to respect.... this is all so hard