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Chemo for life?

Posted by Kevin @wojahns, Feb 5, 2018

My wife is in her sixth year fighting cancer that spread from the back of her throat to nearby lymph nodes to nearby behind her ear canal. The multiple tumors have been defeated one at a time with radiation, chemo, and multiple immunotherapies (many in trials). Now the cancer is dormant but she continues to get weekly chemo/bio (Taxol/Erbitux) to keep it away (plus Granix shots). Is it too risky to stop? Is this due to the approved options, not allowing anything else? Should I take her back to M D Anderson or Seattle Cancer Care for a second opinion? What is your opinion? Thanks...

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