It is Saturday after a fairly traumatic week, primarily due the spreading cancer. We know that this is the nature of the disease but it does take one by surprise when it actually happens.

Elaine started radiotherapy treatment again on Thursday to the groin area, so we are hopeful that this  tumour will continue to shrink. But, due to the spread, we now have to consider the option of chemotherapy which is on offer by our medical oncologist. I had a long conversation with him yesterday and came away from that with the impression that there is not a lot to gain from this. He did however recommend that talk to our GP (Dr Geoff Gild) and give the matter some thought before phoning him on Wednesday with our decision. So we did that and Geoff being the friend that he is phoned the oncologist (Dr S. Troon) and after a long conversation came away with the confirmation that chemo will not extend Elaine's survival time by an appreciable amount of time. The trade off with chemo is rather extensive including fatigue, nausea, mouth ulcers, costipation or diarrhoea and hairloss. The decision is of course Elaines but it does seem that we will stay with radiotherapy and we will have a discussion with Dr Chee after this round of treatment completes on Thursday.