I think my mom has cancer but she won’t seek treatment. I cross posted this in r/schizophrenia 

For background, my maternal grandmother had schizophrenia and it’s likely that my mother (57 years old) also does because she has a lot of symptoms (delusions, paranoia, hearing voices). The symptoms started expressing around 2012 or so, but have been increasingly worse. She’s been hospitalized a couple of times and the psychiatrists expressed concerns, but she hasn’t been officially diagnosed. Or maybe she was and didn’t disclose the diagnosis. She has delusions that almost everyone she encounters is the same person and that she can’t trust anyone. This is one of the reasons she hasn’t been able to receive treatment, as she doesn’t trust any of the establishments. She also doesn’t trust that the medication would help. 

I’ve accepted that she isn’t willing to receive treatment, as it’s her decision and nothing any of us who love her say helps. She’s lost a lot already and it’s been difficult, but I’m scared that she’s going to lose her life soon. She mentioned a couple of years ago that she had a lump on her breast and said she would seek treatment. I assumed she had because she didn’t really mention it, but recently she’s been complaining about it and admitted that she never went to the hospital. She said that it’s not a lump, it’s a penis, so she doesn’t need to go, because she needs to pray about it. Her religious dedication is another reason she hasn’t received treatment and refuses medication, as she says that God has it under control.

Today, I saw this lump and it’s the size of two tennis balls. I cried and begged her to visit the hospital, but she said she can’t go because they’ll tear her apart in the hospital and take her as a trophy. She’s waiting on a doctor that she can trust, which God will lead her to, someone who will see that it’s a penis, not cancer. She doesn’t want me to even use the terms lump or cancer. 

Is there any hope in this situation? I want her to be around. I’m only 25. Any advice on how to help someone seek treatment would be helpful.