Wife diagnosed with cancer of the unknown primary but treatment is making it worse? It's very confusing

My wife  has been told she has cancer of a unknown primary but when she had treatment it was killing her so it got stopped and all her stats started to go normal and now she had some radio therapy and her stats are going funny again its very confusing 

  • Hello Mrkk, 

    I am so sorry to hear that your wife was diagnosed with a cancer of unknown primary and that the treatment was so difficult for her and had to be stopped. I am not sure why the stats went funny after she had radiotherapy treatment and I can imagine this has been very confusing and hard for you to understand really. It might be worth bringing this up with her medical team or specialist and asking them to explain why this is happening. I am sure they will have the expertise to enlighten you on this. 

    Feel free also to get in touch with our cancer nurses on this free number 0808 800 4040 if you wanted to talk things through - their helpline is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm. 

    I hope that the radiotherapy treatment will prove to be effective and that those figures will go back to normal very quickly. 

    Best wishes, 

    Lucie, Cancer Chat Moderator