Dear all, Dr. S just called to let Val know that the scan results show her cancer continues to progress. This confirms what her symptoms suggested to us. It also means she no longer qualifies for the Tarceva trial, so at least she can recover from that set of side Continue Reading
CT
knowns and unknowns
Well, friends, here’s the info we’ve got so far today. The CT scan shows disease progression. Almost all the “target lesions” (specific nodules of cancer they’ve been tracking) show some growth. There are now a few lesions in Val’s liver, as well. Evidently this is typical of non-small cell cancer Continue Reading
Gemzar
Oh, cancer. You are such an exhausting prima donna. Go home. Get a day job. Take up fly-fishing. Become a cabbie, maybe? Turn all that energy to something productive, for once. Val had a CT scan Friday. We got the results this morning, and they were not we hoped or, Continue Reading
kind news
January’s mystery nodules have vanished! All else remains stable. Hooray!
Scan results to come Monday,
Scan results will be in on Monday.
scan postponed a bit
Val has a cold, so the Feb 14 scan is being postponed. Stay tuned.
scan goes into overtime
So we saw the oncologist and the upshot was, Val will have another scan in 6 weeks.
two-step
Dearest and fondest and best, i am here! still. and i realize it has been a big vast silence for these many months and i am sorry. i went to new zealand. and after that i did some laundry. on Monday they scanned the inside of me. i suppose somewhere Continue Reading