Thanks for your comments and appreciate your well wishes.

Kathy - she received 3x cisplatin then switched across to
carboplatin due to ringing in her ears.

Cheryl - we have spoken to 3 separate oncologists - one from the UK & two from Korea. All three have said no surgery or radiotherapy as the toxicity involved will not be worth the outcome.

I think metastasis is the dreaded unknown territory which everyone fears and doesn't quite know what its about. Will try and explain things once we have attended all of our initial meetings (we have two scheduled for this week) and I get a chance to summarize things from my end.