Capox Chemo

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My Mum is really struggling with Capox today, just on her 3rd cycle, fingers crossed just having a bad day today..

She had right hemicolectomy stage 3, one node out of 15 had cancer so offered 6 month Chemo. 

She is feeling like she wants to stop the Chemo, if she does then maybe if she completes 4 cycles, rather than do the full 8 cycles, with just one node affected this is a reasonable compromise? I would be interested in reading the research on this

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