Hi Bazza,
I know nothing about chemotherapy but will have to deal with it in the future.
Everyone has to deal with decisions about treatment at some point and it must be difficult to know what to do for the best. I was only given one option with my cancer treatment at diagnosis, HT & RT, as they said it was too advanced for surgery so I didn't have to make those difficult choices that others have found to be so hard to deal with.
Five months after that, when I had my heart attack, I was faced with a major decision which I now realise I got wrong. The cardiologist wanted me to have a bypass operation, which I didn't want to have because I thought the recovery time would be too long and I needed to get back to work (as a freelance, no work, no money). As it turned out, that was a bad decision as I couldn't return to work for five and a half months anyway due to ongoing heart problems. I still have heart problems which will only probably be sorted with a bypass so I wish I'd thought about it more carefully.
I'm sure that if I could have heard the experience of other cardiac patients who had had the bypass operation, I may have decided differently. At least you have many people on this site who can share their experiences with you.
Anyway I just wanted to wish you all the very best in whatever you finally decide to do and try to have a very Happy Christmas.
Steve