Chemo hasn't worked

Hi Charm welcome to the forum and sorry to hear what's happening for you all..Radiotherapy is often used as a way to alleviate pain and works differently to chemo. It has been known to be very successful in reducing pain so hopefully this will help. Best wishes.Gail 

Thankyou very much , that's good to know that it helps with pain , cancer is such a cruel disease 

Hi Charm I had a rectal tumour and radiotherapy is often used to shrink the tumour before surgery. I had 5 weeks of Monday to Friday radiotherapy alongside a low dose of chemo in tablet form ( which apparently enhances the effect of the radiotherapy) My tumour shrank from 4cm to 1cm which also stopped the bleeding and thin stools. Really hope this has a similar effect for your dad

Take care

Karen x

Thanks for your reply karen, my dad's cancer is terminal so it's just a case of keeping it stable, so with the chemo not working I was hoping radiotherapy was better x