It's all just a guesstimate, and they're always better coming from your own treating doctors. There's people on here that have lived close to and over a decade on from their stage 4 diagnosis. Your treatment seems to be doing its job and keep the cancer dormant to a certain extent. When that stops, you'll probably be given something else to try and slow it down again. It all depends on your individual response to the drugs you are taking and it all sounds to be going fine at the moment. Hoy's cancer isn't your cancer. But these stories and stories from people you met along this journey do shake the ground underneath you for a period of time.

Also, you don't need to ask the question if you don't want to. That a very personal choice you can only make. If you want to live in ignorance, live in ignorance. You're not a coward for not wanting to really know. I'm sure the treating doctors would tell you if things were imminent as to allow you to get your affairs in order.

Also, you don't need to ask the question if you don't want to. That a very personal choice you can only make. If you want to live in ignorance, live in ignorance. You're not a coward for not wanting to really know. I'm sure the treating doctors would tell you if things were imminent as to allow you to get your affairs in order.