Meeting the oncologist

Love your honesty and your discription of your oncologist. He sounds pretty typical of oncologists generally, not very good at looking on the bright side! Those sheets they give you listing all the side effects are very daunting but I can't say that I had very many of those exact side effects. I think you will find the taste issue is more associated with your second type of chemo (sounds like you will have weekly taxol). You will hopefully find the weekly chemo for your second half of chemo a lot easier than the 21day cycle alternative of Docetaxel (this really knocked me and my white blood cells). You are so right with the last bit about the list of side effects being similar to those of many common drugs. They have to list everything, even rare side effects, just to cover themselves. Hopefully you will find that your original idea about chemo is more accurate than the scarey lists we are all confronted with! Keep posting and keep in touch. Deanne xxx