I'm pretty sure that the Oncotype DX test gives an indication of whether chemo will be of benefit by estimating how likely a cancer is to recur whilst taking hormone therapy. The Predict tool will give the added benefit of hormone therapy vs no hormone therapy. At the end of the day, the choice is yours. If you find the side effects so debilitating, how high a chance of recurrence would make that worth it? Your quality of life is everything. One of the hardest things I've found about this disease is that there are no guarantees, no one can tell me it's gone for good, that it won't come back, it's all 'best guesses' based on the available evidence. I do genuinely believe that the overwhelming majority of health professionals want the best for us, they prescribe the treatments they know work because they want us to get better, they aren't trying to make us unwell. BUT we are all individuals, all our cancers are too, how we react to to drugs is.
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