Hello, the grading of my colon tumour has left me with a choice over whether to start a course of chemotherapy with capecitabine. The oncologist has said its a judgement call as I only have one high risk marker (vascular activity). Appreciate how lucky I am to have this grading. The statistics say I will get a 4% benefit from having it to not on the figures at the five years point (77% moving to 81%). Its an 8 cycle programme over 6 months as out patient with drug in tablet form. Initially my instinct was to proceed. However, I got quite spooked by the possible side effects and being told due to my general poor health over the last 18 months that I was very likely to see some of them. The oncologist's advice was on balance she saw too little reward for the risks, but equally she saw a case for proceeding if I wished. By nature I am a risk adverse sort of chap and this is my third unrelated cancer in ten years and one of those has returned, which makes me pessimistic at this one returning too. At that point I swing back to proceeding. Cutting to the chase, I was wondering about the experiences of capecitabine by members of this forum?
