My Mom is starting to give up. The Chemo Regime is wiping her out. She has been hospitalized more than not since they began the chemo. Between the irratractable vomiting, mouth/throat pain, mouth sores, bleeding tounge, her stomach is killing her from the vomiting and an infected peg tube and choking on her mucous she is feeling that she can't continue. I honestly don't know if she could survive another chemo treatment. They have postponed the remainder of her IMRTs (37 done-3 more left) She is supposed to have 2 more weeks of chemo (1 week on - 2-3weeks off) but she does not think she could make it through another cycle. She is meeting with the dr. tommorrow to discuss the option of stopping the chemo.

It is very hard to find the line when and how to determine if the chemo is to dangerous and when to keep going with it to better the odds of killing any cancer cells roaming. I will be there (in TX) on thursday and I just want to have some clarification before I get there. I know she will be looking to me for some advice.

Has anyone been down this path? If so what choice did you make and how did it work out for you. Is there any other options for her other than this barbaric chemo regime?

Tami
Mom has BOT scc stage 3(was a stage 1 until pet scan showed 2nd small tumor and 1 lypmh node on the side of the primary tumor)