palliative radiotherapy

Less than 12hrs to decide if to recommend 5 treatments for my terminally ill aunty. She's weeks from the end, the cancer is in her brain now. I'm just totally not sure if to recommend to her to have radiotherapy to relieve the symptoms if its going to make her worse.

  • Hello Delian,

    I am so sorry to hear that you aunt is terminally ill. It must be a very stressful time for you and a very difficult decision to have to take.

    Feel free to give our nurses a call - if you are based in the UK, you can reach them on this free line 0808 800 4040, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. 

    We also have some information on palliative brain radiotherapy here which I hope will be useful to you. But do call our nurses if you want today before 5pm. 

    Hopefully some of our users will have been in a similar situation as you or have experience of palliative radiotherapy and will be along soon to share their story with you.

    Best wishes and keep us updated when you have a chance,

    Lucie, Cancer Chat Moderator