This looks like palliative care for end of life treatment.

This is how they explained palliative care to me when U of M was going to start that course of treatment.

They put you on a chemo program and monitor how effective it is. The goal is to stop the growth or even shrink the tumors. If this is working they continue until it stops working. Once it stops working they just monitor you.

On average, the chemo adds 2 to 4 months of life before it stops working. Some patients can go out 18-24 months but this is rare. The average survival time for an oral cancer patient once on palliative care is 9 months.

Lucky for me I had a trial I qualified for and could opt out of the U of M plan. If I had no other choice I was wondering if I would have subjected myself to all the chemo side effects for just a few months� time.