Hi Bassbuddy

A very warm welcome to our forum.

I am so sorry to hear about your wife's diagnosis and the difficult decision she is having to take. What stage was your wife's cancer and were clear margins achieved after her surgery?

There are side-effects to all cancer treatments. In the care of radiotherapy these are nowhere near as bad as they used to be. Radiotherapy has become much more targeted on the cancerous cells now and is not as harmful to the normal cells. Not everyone gets side-effects and there is always the option to stop treatment if they do.

It would be worth the two of you sitting down and drawing up a list of questions for her consultant. Ask some of the awkward questions such as, what are her chances of survival with/without radiotherapy. If it's likely to make a big difference, it would be worth having, but if not, she may have made the right decision.

Please keep in touch and let us know if she changes her mind. We are always here for both of you.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx

Hi Bassbuddy

A very warm welcome to our forum.

I am so sorry to hear about your wife's diagnosis and the difficult decision she is having to take. What stage was your wife's cancer and were clear margins achieved after her surgery?

There are side-effects to all cancer treatments. In the care of radiotherapy these are nowhere near as bad as they used to be. Radiotherapy has become much more targeted on the cancerous cells now and is not as harmful to the normal cells. Not everyone gets side-effects and there is always the option to stop treatment if they do.

It would be worth the two of you sitting down and drawing up a list of questions for her consultant. Ask some of the awkward questions such as, what are her chances of survival with/without radiotherapy. If it's likely to make a big difference, it would be worth having, but if not, she may have made the right decision.

Please keep in touch and let us know if she changes her mind. We are always here for both of you.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx

Thank you Jolamine, we don’t know what stage the cancer was, only that it was caught early and had not spread. There all the area’s around the removed cancer and lymph nodes came back clear. We are seeing the consultant on Friday for a discussion? Gary

Sorry, yes alm the margins were clear and free from any cancer cells 

Hi Gary,

There can be some long term side-effects of radiotherapy to the head and neck, so make sure to ask the consultant about these. No question is too insignificant to ask. The fact that your wife's cancer has been caught early and there's no spread is positive. Do please let us know how it goes on Friday.

Kind regards,

Jolamine 

Thank you Jolamine, I will let you know x