I’ve had enough

It's interesting that yuo've had, as far as I can see, no responses.  I completely empathise with your view.  I wasn't offered a 'trial', just regular palliative chemotherpay for bowel and liver cancer.  I reacted so badly that I was hospitalised for over two weeks after two sessions, and in a way that must have made it revolting for the nurses looking after me.  I was then offered a reduced dose to see if I still reacted badly.

It's interesting that you've had, as far as I can see, no responses.  I completely empathise with your view.  I wasn't offered a 'trial', just regular palliative chemotherpay for bowel and liver cancer.  I reacted so badly that I was hospitalised for over two weeks after two sessions, and in a way that must have made it revolting for the nurses looking after me.  I was then offered a reduced dose to see if I still reacted badly.  Like you I thought 'to what end?'  With Macmillan's help and advice I'm making the best of it - but if I give up this 'better' time on a declining lifestyle what lifestyle will I return to after the treatment - even if I don't react badly?  But declining treatment seems to be not what's expected - all these silly expressions like 'fight', and 'brave' and so on are all out there - all on the presumption that everybody is scared of dying and values being alive over living.  You are brave, in my view, to face rthings square on and plan accordingly.  I've also picked up on your oblique reference to survivabilty stats - again with nop qualititative component.  Please excuse the double posting - a casrriage return is taklen as a 'post' instruction and I can't see how to edit once I've posted - it's not even keen to delete.  All the best.