Going Without

Women are choosing not to have chemotherapy. A May 15th article from the Boston Herald explains:

Some women who once underwent chemotherapy as an automatic treatment for breast cancer are rethinking the harsh cure in favor of hormone therapy as some doctors change the way they look at the disease, experts said.

For Joanne Shadrick it was an obvious choice. After surgery and radiation treatment two years ago to treat her breast cancer, her doctor told her she had a 94 percent chance of survival.

“She said we can add chemotherapy and that can add a 1 percent chance of survival. Then I said, ‘I don’t want to take it if I don’t have to,”’ said Shadrick, who lives in East Bridgewater.

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