Update

I wanted to give you all an update on how things are going for me.

Basically my cancer fight is not going well. I had about a 30% increase in tumor growth while on Folfori and then Folfox since my bad post op scan last August. The latest scan shows many liver tumors, a few lung tumors and the peritoneal mets have come back.

Now I have a hard tumor at the surface of my abdomen a few inches above my stoma. It wasn't on the scan in January, but here it is in February. I've known for quite a while that my cancer is fairly aggressive, but damn!!! That's a fast growing tumor. If it keeps growing out toward the surface, I'm gonna have my own little "Alien" scene. We could do some radiation on it, but it's so close to my stoma and intestines that we are going to take a wait and see approach.

My onc said that without effective treatment, I could be looking at a matter of months. But since I feel so good otherwise and still have lots of energy he said he could also see me just keep going and going.

I went to Duke for another opinion. For those of you familiar with Duke, I saw Dr. Zafar. He agreed with the prognosis. Duke does a lot of research and Dr. Zafar has a few phase 1 trials. I put my name on the list so I'll have the option down the road, but I don't think that I would do a trial at this point. I really need to give the naturopathic treatment plan more time. It's only been a month and a half - not nearly enough time to show positive results.

So I'm not feeling particularly hopeful at this point, but still not hopeless.

Last night I played soccer for the first time since surgery. I was surprised that I could keep up. They made me play goalie, which I hate, but I only let in 6 or 7 goals. Some of those 9 year old girls can really shoot.

Have a great day folks.

Roger