I got some good news today.  My  mother's condition has been deteriorating very rapidly over the past 2 weeks and we thought for sure it was because the tumor was growing, but we got the results from her MRI and the tumor has actually shrunk.  The deterioration has been caused by the water retention that is a side effect of the steriods that she is on.  They cut the steriods by one pill a day for this week and will be reducing them by half a pill a week until they find a balance between the side effects and the benefits.  She cannot have another course of chemo unti