Hello and thank you for posting,

I can appreciate your questions.

Your specialist may be able to give you general statistics around your outlook with or without treatment, based on other similar patients they may had. It is difficult for others outside of your direct clinical care to comment on this very specifically. Usually treatment is offered when there is a reasonable expectation that it will help, by reducing symptoms and maybe slowing down the cancer. Your specialist will want to monitor you over the next few treatments, and assess how you are responding to this treatment, and may use scans and blood tests to do this. So, I think at this point, it is perhaps a little early for them to comment in depth about how your overall health condition is looking moving forward.

If you would like to see if other forum members respond, then you might want to post in the general thread section of Cancerchat too.

I hope this helps some,

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Yours sincerely,

Vanda