I wanted to give you all an update and add another story of hope and inspiration to everyone battling this disease. As some may know, my sister was dx in 03/09 at 39 years with Stage IV cc mets to liver, ovaries and peritoneum. She had NO symptoms, was a marathon runner and is a mother of three small children. Severe abdominal pain sent her to the ER where they discovered the tumor that grew outside of her colon had perforated the colon. She had emergency surgery with her ovaries removed and her tumor removed and her colon resected. She then started chemo after with Erbitux and after 3 month, it seemed to be working. She sought a liver surgeon that scheduled liver resection. She was off the chemo for several weeks waiting for the resection. During pre-op, they discovered the cancer spread to nearby lymph nodes and grew like mad. She went back on chemo; avastin, 5FU and oxalyplatin. This was back at the end of August. Fast forward to today where her latest PET showed the peritoneal cancer was not picked up on the PET and that her liver tumors were shinking, some even gone and her lymph involvement dying. They are talking RFA or resection for the remainder of the liver mets. We are sooo happy, after many many bad news one after another, we finally got some good news! I am sharing this, because I had once thought nothing else could be done, but now I have lots of hope. Thank you for listening. Marie
