jlheuer posted: " This past week was the moment I have been waiting for since my first scan on 1/3/2022. Followed by a biopsy on 1/12/2022 and finally a meeting on 1/18/2022, when the doctor told me the cancer was back. My first of six chemo treatments began on Februa"
This past week was the moment I have been waiting for since my first scan on 1/3/2022. Followed by a biopsy on 1/12/2022 and finally a meeting on 1/18/2022, when the doctor told me the cancer was back. My first of six chemo treatments began on February 10. This scan came two and a half weeks after the 4th chemo on April 14th.
Hopefully it was going to show that all of this stuff I am going through was making a difference. To say I was apprehensive would be an understatement. What if there had been no change? What if the change wasn't significant enough? Would additional treatments be added?
I knew that something had changed because the pain I was experiencing in the area of the mass had subsided. This pain was presumably caused by the mass pushing on my intestinal wall so the lack of pain seemed like a good sign. I had fingers and toes and eyes crossed.
Through my medical system I can communicate with my doctor online, make appts and see test results. The results pop in as soon as a technician reads them and puts them into the computer. So I usually see them way before the doctor who is not sitting and waiting for my results or any of the other 50 patients that had tests that day. My doctor did say to me that she really hates that in a way because the patient is then interpreting things that may not be true, or they are on the phone to the doctor before the results reach her. I can understand.
Did I look when the results came in? Yes.
Was there a reduction? Yes.
Here is my graphic interpretation. I had a hard time doing a 3D image so this is just length and width but the depth was also down about .5cm. All of the measurements are in cm. The longest length was 6.8cm
The pink area is the original size, the blue is the current size. Maybe 15-20% reduction? I was hoping for at least 50% but the doctor said ANY reduction is a positive sign. And I have since had another chemo treatment with a 6th scheduled for May 26th.
Where do I go from here? Well finishing the chemo and then another CT scan and then...to be determined. It is still going to be a long haul and I don't think I will be seeing any hair till Fall so I ordered two new head coverings.
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