<span style=”font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: #f7f7f7;”>Hi my mother is 70 and was. Diagnosed in January with multiple myeloma she has nearly finished four rounds of chemo and the consultant wants to do a stem cell transplant, my mother is refusing, the consultant has told her she she will have another 15 months with the transplant but she is gathering she will lose about a year of her life through feeling so unwell and therefore has decided it’s just not worth it</span><br style=”margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;” /><br style=”margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;” /><span style=”font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: #f7f7f7;”>it She doesn’t drink ( although smoked for twenty years, now stopped) is very slim etc </span><br style=”margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;” /><br style=”margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;” /><span style=”font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: #f7f7f7;”>Also I am worried about what future holds for me I gather it’s not hereditary but the Internet also says your four times more likely to get it of a close family member has it? </span><br style=”margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;” /><br style=”margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;” /><span style=”font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: #f7f7f7;”>She won’t ask the consultant any detailed question so I can’t be any more help of what stage she is at but I’m gathering stage three, should she have the transplant do you think or is it just not worth it ? </span><br style=”margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;” /><br style=”margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;” /><span style=”font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: #f7f7f7;”>Many thanks</span>
