I really wish your friend luck. And I hope, somewhere along her journey, they find a treatment that will help her live for a very, very long time.

Please support your friend so that she doesn't give up hope. Hope will be so important in her battle. Help her to remember that her diagnosis isn't the end of her life and that she should live to the full whatever days she has left.

There was a very inspiring British woman, Jane Tomlinson, who raised hundreds of thousands of Pounds for cancer research in the seven years after she'd been told that her breast cancer had returned, it was terminal and she had less than six months to live. Here is her obituary: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2585103.stm Somehow, I imagine your friend to be very like Jane.

- Pam