How do you decide on treatment?
Hi, this is soo not a me thing to do - I'm basically a very private person and struggle to ask for help, but I was filling in some sleepless hours reading some posts and decided I should bite the bul...
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Dear @BloodyNuisance
Cancer is just that - a bloody nuisance. It interferes with our plans and lives and forces us into decisions that most of us have little training or experience to do adequately or with conviction! But like most bloody nuisances, it has to be dealt with. From my point of view, I’d rather deal with it once if at all possible. I had no
option about a mastectomy, but I could have refused chemo (I had three months of A/C, then three months of Taxol). And a year of herceptin. I accepted what my oncologist recommended - he was well qualified, good research credentials and knew a lot more about bc than I did. I didn’t have a perfect run, most of us don’t but I was never sick through chemo (worked throughout) and my heart was carefully monitored through herceptin and no side effects. If it all gets too much, you can stop, you know. But, like many, I felt it was worth doing all I could to stop the bloody nuisance returning. Did it work? Don’t know, but eight years in, so far so good. It’s a horribly personal decision, but ‘no regrets’ was the clincher for me. Best wishes whatever you decide.
Cancer is just that - a bloody nuisance. It interferes with our plans and lives and forces us into decisions that most of us have little training or experience to do adequately or with conviction! But like most bloody nuisances, it has to be dealt with. From my point of view, I’d rather deal with it once if at all possible. I had no
option about a mastectomy, but I could have refused chemo (I had three months of A/C, then three months of Taxol). And a year of herceptin. I accepted what my oncologist recommended - he was well qualified, good research credentials and knew a lot more about bc than I did. I didn’t have a perfect run, most of us don’t but I was never sick through chemo (worked throughout) and my heart was carefully monitored through herceptin and no side effects. If it all gets too much, you can stop, you know. But, like many, I felt it was worth doing all I could to stop the bloody nuisance returning. Did it work? Don’t know, but eight years in, so far so good. It’s a horribly personal decision, but ‘no regrets’ was the clincher for me. Best wishes whatever you decide.