The chemo’s too much, but getting on a clinical trial is gruelling enough

Continuing his account of his illness, Steve Hewlett suffers a setback as he waits nervously for new drugs

Now sharp-eyed readers may have spotted that this diary starts the day before the last one was published! By way of a little back story, my doctors have been trying to get me on to a clinical trial featuring new immunotherapy treatments, on the basis that my first line of chemotherapy worked well initially and then failed completely, and the second-line chemo, while it did show signs of working, was proving pretty hard for me to tolerate. But getting on to clinical trials has proved more than a trial in itself!