The tumour hasn't grown, but equally it hasn't shrunk which seems to suggest that it hasn't responded to the current chemotherapy regime of Irinotecan, 5FU and Avastin.
This means that I need more aggressive and evil chemotherapy. This means more oxaliplatin and 5FU.
You may remember oxaliplatin or poxy oxy as it is known amongst the bowel cancer patients. It is the one that cause peripheral neuropathy, you know, the tingling in the fingers & toes and numbness in the cold.
I cannot wait, luckily I don't have too. Dr Cummins wants this to start on Monday! yep like after the weekend!!
I will be having this fortnightly so at a slightly lower concentration than I had previously, and I'll have 6 initial sessions, then another scan to see what the progress is.
Hopefully the removal of the Irinotecan and Avastin will curtail the bleeding and so that will alleviate some of my worries.
Don't be under any illusions though. I am still very ill. If this lot of chemotherapy does not work, we have to start looking into alternatives, radiotherapy, trial therapies, anything to try and target this awful disease.
In the meantime I read about an app you can download to help scientists try and find a cure for breast cancer. So if you or your significant goer, or anybody else you know is a gamer, visit
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/support-us/play-to-cure-genes-in-space
and download the app. It's free, and helps fight cancer.
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