**3.3 Case 3**

Another 43-year-old woman with stage IV metastatic colon cancer, who had progressed despite standard chemotherapy, began single agent mifepristone therapy. Similar to the aforementioned case, there was a halt to cancer progression, her energy markedly improved, and she had great relief of pain. After 18 months some of her metastatic lesions began to grow. She assumed that this was the end of her remission, so she stopped the mifepristone, and decided to try a new experimental drug. She died 3 months later [40]. Based on subsequent clinical experience, we would have advised her that even though the lesions are starting to grow again, mifepristone will still prolong a high quality of life, and will prevent rapid spread, thus advising her not to stop mifepristone.
