On another thread about this I told about a friend (28 years old) who died of this same kind of cancer. Actually, she died of chemotherapy, not the cancer, and it was not a good way to die. I vowed at that time never, ever to go for chemo. Maybe surgery, maybe even radiation if it had a good track record, but never chemo. I had another friend who went through horrible times with chemo, but succumbed to cancer anyway.
I don't see why families can't make these kinds of decisions themselves. Talk about the nanny state.
Lost my mother to lung cancer. She took chemo and showed some improvement. Then the doctors recommended radiation and that did her in. She lasted 4 months after diagnosis and I believe to this day that she would have made it much longer and had a better life value without any treatment.
I had a friend who had colon cancer,had chemo, got rid of cancer,then had breast cancer,got a large dose of chemo to get rid of that and the chemo sent her into alzheimers...The cancer????she was cancer free but died after 3 years of alzheimers......had a co-worker who had cancer,had chemo that gave her a stroke and they found another type of cancer in her..She has since died..One was 65,the other 45.....