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I will say this at the beginning- its terrible to hear this news about one of your own 'furry kids'. She is a bit elderly to want to put her through the stress of chemo...but how is her health right now? Is she in visible pain? I had Twilight, my baby (cat) of 10 years, put to sleep after a tough battle with cancer. She had a tumor on her spine and we went the chemo route for a while. Looking back, I wish I had not... but I was young and thought everyone could win against cancer if you tried hard enough. My honest suggestion would be to let her enjoy the life she has left and enjoy her time left without going to chemo. I have had to have pets and human people go through chemo and the result is the same... prolonging the pain. What I ended up doing with Twilight was accepting the steriod meds for her (it made the tumor swelling go down to where she could walk/eat/ect normally) and forgoing any more chemo. It made her so sick and looked so miserable...she started trying to attack her brother (same litter, had been together since birth) like he was a stranger. She would bite me and anyone else... not because of a personality thing, but it hurt too bad after a while. The steriod meds worked for a couple of months but after that, when the tumor made her unable to have any 'good days', we went ahead and had her put to sleep. It is a personal call of quanity of life vs quality of life. Just as an fyi, not attempting to be disrespectful of your oncologist, but it *IS* financially advantageous for them to tell you that chemo treatments are the way to go. But it truely is a personal call.