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other treatment options?
I am 55 and just diagnosed, a couple of weeks ago, with iDC, i was really hoping it would have been insitu still, but not to be. I am booked for a mastectomy on the 20th (2 weeks eeek). The biopsy sa...
Yes indeedee. When you read the printout that comes with Femara.... I've just started taking it this week. I start radiotherapy next week and have far from recovered from chemo.
I gave that fact sheet to my partner so he could have a heads up on what the next ten years or so might bring. He read it and the best direct quote I can give is "Why the F%$; would you take that?"
The short answer is that there is nothing else. The long answer, which I think I will have to investigate, is that is may not save me and I don't want to live with what it does to my body. I don't want to be disabled by a treatment that may, or may not help me. Decisions, decisions.
Bev, there are no shortcuts. The science has come a long way, but the effects of treatments can rival stories of mediaeval torture. It's all a gamble?
I gave that fact sheet to my partner so he could have a heads up on what the next ten years or so might bring. He read it and the best direct quote I can give is "Why the F%$; would you take that?"
The short answer is that there is nothing else. The long answer, which I think I will have to investigate, is that is may not save me and I don't want to live with what it does to my body. I don't want to be disabled by a treatment that may, or may not help me. Decisions, decisions.
Bev, there are no shortcuts. The science has come a long way, but the effects of treatments can rival stories of mediaeval torture. It's all a gamble?