Evie2007, Dahlia, Jansman - I had 4 x EC then 4 x taxol with gemcitabine as part of a trial and found it very do-able (but then I haven’t any children and never suffered sickness with it - phew!). It turned out I had 2 tumours that originally showed as one 7.5cm x 5.5cm. Grade 3 and a mixture of dcis and idc, 12/22 nodes, vascular invasion and stage 4 as there was some spread to spine and ribs. My onc has been doing the job for many years and as long as I was willing and not suffering, prepared to throw it all at me. It was followed up with 15 high dose rads.
I probably shouldn’t put this here but hope it may provide some resurrance - I’m getting more side effects from the hormone treatment than I ever had from the chemo and rads but trying to be positive and work on the basis it means it’s all working !
Good luck, Liz