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  • phrannie51
    phrannie51 Member Posts: 4,716
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    Kars5969 said:

    Treatment update

    I just found out that i have 13 treaments left.  Plus one more round of chemo.  I asked the doctor - so what's next?  If the tumor is still there what do we do next?  Do we start another round of treatment?  what?  He said if it didn't work then there is nothing they can do.  Are you kidding me?  i find this hard to believe that I only get one chance at this and if it doesn't work then I'm done.  Has anyone else ever heard of this?  Where should I got next?   I'm not just going to lay down and die.  Any advice please would be appreciated!! 

    First of all....

    you still have at least 1/2 of your rad treatments left to go, and one more chemo treatment....there is really no good time for stepping out into the future, but right now is the worst time I can think of ...  Your words tell me that you have a lot of fight in you...so for the time being let that fight carry you thru treatment....tomorrow will be here soon enough, there's no sense in projecting possibilities that are a long ways off, possibles of which you have no control....and if you sit down and think about it....most of the dreaded possibilities we dream up in our heads never come to pass. 

    You said you have faith in the cancer center you have chosen.....good....keep that faith....and as one of our cohorts on this site says....."BELIEVE!!!  You are going to survive this, so get used to the idea!".....

    p  

  • debbiejeanne
    debbiejeanne Member Posts: 3,102 Member
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    Kars5969 said:

    Treatment update

    I just found out that i have 13 treaments left.  Plus one more round of chemo.  I asked the doctor - so what's next?  If the tumor is still there what do we do next?  Do we start another round of treatment?  what?  He said if it didn't work then there is nothing they can do.  Are you kidding me?  i find this hard to believe that I only get one chance at this and if it doesn't work then I'm done.  Has anyone else ever heard of this?  Where should I got next?   I'm not just going to lay down and die.  Any advice please would be appreciated!! 

    the doctors don't know God's

    the doctors don't know God's plan.   Cool

    God bless,

    dj

  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
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    Kars5969 said:

    Treatment update

    I just found out that i have 13 treaments left.  Plus one more round of chemo.  I asked the doctor - so what's next?  If the tumor is still there what do we do next?  Do we start another round of treatment?  what?  He said if it didn't work then there is nothing they can do.  Are you kidding me?  i find this hard to believe that I only get one chance at this and if it doesn't work then I'm done.  Has anyone else ever heard of this?  Where should I got next?   I'm not just going to lay down and die.  Any advice please would be appreciated!! 

    What's Next..

    If it were me, and at the end of treatment after you have follow-up scans and they show you as still having cancer. annnnd then if your facilty had nothing left for you...

    It's time for a new facility and other opinions...

    JG

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