Hi all,
My wife has was diagnosed over 3 years ago with Stage 4 Cancer. It started as Rectal Cancer prior to this and after multiple surgeries/treatments it was considered stage 4 "Non curable but treatable to prolong life".
Anyway, she has now been on chemo for over 3 years, every two weeks with a break after 6 cycles (about 6 week break).
As you can imagine, it's starting to take it's toll on her - She's constantly tired, not doing much and these past 12 week she has been really poorly with multiple different ailments.
She said to me Yesterday after her most recent cycle that she can't do it anymore and is seriously thinking about stopping treatment. Whilst I agree that "Quality of life" is better than the "Quantity" - Why put yourself through all this if you can't enjoy it? We have a 5 year old child and it's impacting her too, seeing her Mummy poorly all the time and also stopping my wife spending quality time with her.
We have already been told there is no other treatment available other than chemotherapy (Whether that's the same as she's on now or a different chemotherapy). We've explored private health care with the same results.
Obviously we need to have a serious discussion about this between ourselves, with the oncologist and family but I'm so scared what is going to happen should she stop treatment 
