Greetings all,
Last week I finished my three weeks of radiation to my pelvic bone. After 4 or 5 treatments the pain went away so that's a good sign. The doctor said that over the course of another two weeks (as the tumor cells attempt to divide and fail) the tumor will die off.
I have a chemoembolization scheduled for April 22nd, bright and early in the morning. I'll check in at 7:00 and will be his first case of the day. This time he plans to attack all of the tumors that are present so the procedure will take longer. He asked that I skip my Avastin for this round of chemotherapy in order to allow the blood vessels to return to their normal dilation. He wants them plump to make it easier to thread his catheter through them.
This procedure will be done at Stanford and I'll stay overnight in the hospital for one night. I'll go home the next day once they see that I'm in no pain, have no nausea, and can eat and drink normally.
After that I'll have another round of chemo a couple of weeks later and then scans (PET and MRI) three weeks later. At that time we will get a chance to see what effect all of this (chemo, radiation, chemoembolization) has had since the last set of scans. Also we will get another look at those suspicious lung nodules that don't light up with the PET scan. If they are larger then perhaps we can biopsy one of them. If they are stable and still don't light up then we don't worry for a while.
The latest CEA is 105.8. It was
117.0 three weeks ago, 103.9 two weeks before that, 185.7 in February,
and 229.1 in January. So it has bounced around but is looking pretty
good, considering.
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