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...fought this disease so courageously,” Morrison said. “He was taking chemo and he still worked. His job was his life, in a way, too...[the department] is like a family...
There was even less control over the course of the next two years as the cancer spread, through seven rounds of chemo, three operations on Catie's lungs and one on her liver. It was during that time that Gina began to read aloud the first three books about a schoolboy wizard named Harry Potter, who knew something about fighting fierce, deadly enemies. Maybe that's why, when they took the train from their home in upstate New York to New York City for treatment, Catie wore a red cape, red lightning-shaped scar on her forehead, a wand...
...While chemotherapy is typically thought of as life-prolonging (rather than lifesaving), its benefits definitely fall off with age. According to the Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group, women 50 and younger were 27% less likely to die within 10 years of surgery if they were also treated with chemo. By contrast, women 60 to 69 had their 10-year mortality rate reduced by only 8% with post-surgical chemotherapy...
...other reason seems to be a misconception about the risks and side effects of chemo. These can include impaired thought processes and increased risk of infections, and many older women believe they won't tolerate all of this as well as younger women do. That's a view not shared by many doctors. "For an otherwise healthy older woman," says Du, "the toxicities of chemotherapy should be no different than for a younger woman...
...will do what their doctor recommends if the choice is properly presented. He suggests that oncologists need to be more aggressive in explaining chemotherapy's benefits. Having never had to go through it myself, I have difficulty imagining all the factors a woman--young or old--weighs when considering chemo. It's her life, and she has to make the call. All I would ask is that she arm herself with the facts before she decides...