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Chemo is finished: Now what?

Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Dec 31, 2024 | Replies (16)

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Statistically, people who receive chemo, radiation, etc. have fewer recurrences than people who don't. But of course, many people have a recurrence despite having chemo etc., myself included. Having chemo and vaginal brachytherapy after my hysterectomy was still the right thing to do. With the benefit of hindsight, I should have had external beam radiation too, but not doing it was also reasonable. And there's no way to know whether that would have changed the outcome.

I'm curious what you think should have been better about your treatment. From my perspective, you appear to have received the best that modern medicine has to offer plus more, since you're on a clinical trial that might help while probably having minimal side effects.

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I'm not in a trial. I'm getting herceptin which is an her2 targeted therapy. I don't think there is any other options for me. There's just so little research and so little anything being done for the cell line that I have. It almost always comes back. It's only 10% of uterine cancers, but it causes 40% of the deaths. Not great odds.