Hello all,

Penny has had 8 chemo treatments and as I posted earlier she developed febrile neutropenia and was hospitalized for 5 days and missed 4 IMRT's. Her MO has stated he would like to cease her chemo as he feels to continue it may compromise her regimen of radiation. I've read several post where chemo was stopped, but I guess my question is originally he wanted to have the chemo run the whole course of her IMRT and even 2 weeks post IMRT--now he is saying that it would be okay to stop the chemo and her tissues are "softened" enough to enhance the radiation. So initially 16 weeks of chemo were warranted and now 8 is sufficient? I know it is more important to continue the radiation, yet it seems having 1/2 the chemo stopped would compromise the outcome? The Dr's respone to this is the IMRT is more important but still this doesn't seem like the main question is being addressed? She has I think 17 more IMRT's to go. Any comments?