I would be very grateful for any views, comments. I've been doing a lot of reading, been on the MacMilllan forum etc, and to be honest there is just too much stuff out there.
But breaking it down, it seems that people are saying - the side effects are really unpleasant, there is only a small chance it will improve your survival rates, but you will want to feel that you did everything you could and the ultimate decision is a very personal one.
I am at day 5 of my first cycle for breast cancer - tumour was grade 3 and nearly 3cm so the oncologists 'very firm' advice was to go for chemo. But I am not sure I can tough this out for the next four months - it seems to be having an unpleasant impact on everything I do and I am getting more and more worried about side effects.
Seeing the oncologist again on 22nd Jan so will raise all my doubts and fears but I would be very interested in anyone else's perspective on this.
I guess I would just rather have a very clear - 'this will improve your chances by 20% but make you feel 80% shit for a while'. But I can see from what I have read that isn't how it works. It just seems so nebulous.
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has anyone refused chemo for breast cancer? or stopped once started?
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Spero · 13/01/2013 15:41
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