My husband has NSCLC 3a, his treatment plan is chemo radiotherapy - 30 radiotherapy sessions and 6 chemo (paclitaxel and carboplatin) he had his first chemo but they’ve cancelled his second as he’s got diaoreah, a couple of my family member has diaoreah also, so in that respect I understand them cancelling it, they’ve had a stool sample and we are waiting for results.
my issue is that they’ve said he will now only receive 5 sessions of chemo instead of 6 as it needs to be in conjunction with his radiotherapy, my question is why can’t they either bring his future sessions forward a day each week to enable the 6th session to fit in, or why can’t they give him 3 extra radiotherapy sessions to fit it in?
I’ve come across a study done on the effects of missing a chemo session and it seems that missing just one session will make a massive difference to overall survival, here is the study - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5767542/
is there anything we can do to ensure he gets the full 6 sessions to give him the best prognosis?
thankyou for your time 
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Thankyou for your reply, he started his radiotherapy last Monday, today will be his 9th radio, his plan is radiotherapy mon-fri and chemo every Wednesday all of this for 6 weeks, but yesterday’s che
was cancelled so they’ve said he will only have 5 chemos instead of 6, they are treating with curative intent but I’m so worried that the missed chemo is going to make a massive difference to his pgnosis, I don’t understand why they can’t fit 1 more chemo into the schedule, I’m sorry if I sound selfish and I really appreciate your reply
I agree , the chemo worked brilliant for my mum in 2017 even though she missed 2 due to her bloods been out. The treatment your husband is having is really effective 
and wish you both luck xxx
