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Metastatic Breast Cancer treatment options

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jul 22, 2023 | Replies (73)

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No, but I asked the oncologist about palative care. The oncologist said not yet. Which is really confusing coming from the oncologist who said to my wife you can go ahead and stop chemo if your quality of life isn’t good on the chemo.

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That doesn’t really make sense does it. You might also ask to talk to a patient advocate, sometimes they have more time to sit and talk with you to work out decisions. I wish we would have stopped my brothers treatments sooner and had a little more time “at the beach”. He kept wanting to try even after the doctor said he didn’t have anything more to offer.
Ultimately I just supported whatever decisions he made, I did ask the questions and made sure he understood that he really had to decide. I wrote it all down when we would talk so I wouldn’t forget when the emergencies came.
These conversations are soooooo hard. Hard to ask harder to answer.
Have you talked about advance directives?