eflavell 3 years ago
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Hi,
My mum was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and had surgery. It’s now spread to he liver and palliative chemo has been suggested. She had a rubbish time with chemo last year and can’t work out whether to accept less time and no chemo or more time and risk the chemo side effects. Does anyone have advice on how to work out whether time or quality of life are more important? We don’t know where to start really.
Thanks
Kirstyn 3 years ago
Hello, thank you for coming to our
community forum today and we’re sorry to read about your mum’s diagnosis and
all she is going through. We are thankful that you have shared your current
situation with us and others on our forum and there may be people going through
similar to help you through these decisions. We can appreciate
you would like some more information around what may be best for mum in this
situation. Its a very personal decision, it may be worth discussing options
with your GP and also cancer research may have some information to help her
make it here - https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment
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