Hi please help, My Mother was admitted to hospital last Friday with confusion & weight loss, sleeping, no appetite. She is an amputee and whilst in hospital has fallen and cracked her hip and has a bleed on her brain which they are saying should stop. She has had two scans and the doctors say she has some cancer in her brain which has come from somewhere else and she has a mass outside her colon, They say she is too weak to offer treatment to and requires palative care, I am still trying to speak to the Oncologist which will hopefully be in Monday, I want to know what benchmark they use for not treating her? I am not expecting miracles but don’t want her righting off just because she’s 76 and appears weak to the doctors, until she went in she was sprightly and full of life. She beat breast cancer in 1980.I don’t want her going through treatment unnecessarily and want whats best for her but would appreciate advice from people who have been in a similar situation or knows what our rights are for treatment or second opinion?
Many thanks
