Anyone with metastatic disease who refused chemo?

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. I would recommend the chemo

I know it stinks, but like your blood stream, your lymphatic system circulates all over your body. Since 4 of your nodes were positive, it really doesn't make much sense to assume that you are cancer free. It makes more sense to assume you still have some lingering malignant cells.

When my mother had breast cancer, she was stage 2 with positive lymph nodes. Her doctor said it was up to her about having chemo or not. At first she wasn't going to do it, but she had a close friend that told her she should. I told her I would take care of her no matter what she decided to do, but that she had an infant granddaughter and didn't she want to do everything she could to live as long as she could to see her grow up. I said "Look at it like this. You're in a shoot out with cancer. You don't want to be, but you have no choice. Each kind of treatment is a bullet in your gun. Surgery is a bullet. Radiation is a bullet. Chemo is a bullet too. Don't you want as many bullets as you can for this fight?"

She ended up doing chemo and living long enough to get to know her granddaughter. Sadly, she died 10 years after her original diagnosis, but that was probably longer than she would have lived without the chemo.