Hi Leen,

I am one of the nurse enquiry team here at Cancer Research UK.  One of our moderators has asked us to look at your thread in case we could tell you anything helpful, but I am afraid I can’t say very much.

I can understand why you are asking this. It must be especially tough when you are away from home for the treatment, but it is really only your doctors who can give you advice about how much treatment you need. They will have recommended the combination of treatments that they think will be the most successful.

The amount of chemotherapy given depends on the types of drugs used which all have a particular schedule and I think this is probably why your doctors will want to stick to the 6 cycles they have recommended. It isn’t possible to get reliable specialist medical advice in forums so our advice when making treatment decisions is always to talk to your specialist team. They can hopefully explain things more and tell you what they hope you will gain from the treatment they want to give. I am sorry we can’t be more helpful and do understand you wanting to get back to your family, but I think it is important that you give yourself the best chance to get rid of the cancer for good.

Best wishes,

Julia