My husband has been diagnosed with rectal cancer, he has been given the choice of 5 doses of radiotherapy then the operation to take it out, or 5 weeks of radiotherapy with chemo then wait 8 weeks to see if he's got a complete response he will then have to have 3 monthly checkups to see if it returns! If it dies it will be back to the operation. This dilemma is horrendous because the operation sounds so bad and he will left with a permanent stoma bag. I don't feel he should have had to make this choice himself we're so torn with this.
