Thank you everyone for all of your comments and support.
I thought I would place an update here so that the community knows what my choice was and why. This may or may not help someone else down the track.
It's been an overwhelming few days but I made my decision to not have the test as basically chemo would always be needed for my situation. It's a fairly aggressive cancer and I wasn't willing to take the chance that there was a mistake made in its determination. So why spend the money when I have other financial needs? I did ask my oncologist the familial question which is when he told me that given what he knew of my cancer he would be recommending the chemo to family.
So when I looked at the likelihood that the Endopredict test would come back with a negative or low percentage on the need for chemotherapy, I decided to not take the test. I thought about whether I would still go ahead with chemo if the percentage was low and I factored in that this is my second type of cancer in 14 years.
My gut feeling was yes, I would go ahead with chemo despite how scared of side effects I would be. Because the test would only be looking at the DNA and likely recurrence in 10 years of my current cancer and could not predict a recurrence of my other cancer or any other cancer. So, was it best to take the "poison pill" of chemo as a preventative? My answer was yes and I have determined to also make lifestyle changes.
That's it, it is not an easy decision to make for any of us. If my cancer had been a different grade and less aggressive I may have taken a chance but I won't let myself think on those 'what ifs' and regret. I need to focus now on equipping myself the best I can for the treatments ahead. I start chemo on 15 November and then in the new year sometime I will have radiation. I'm not sure at what stage yet the hormone suppression will start.
