Hopeful News from Vanderbilt

As you have read in the past my husband of 40 yrs was diagnosed with stage 4 colonrectal cancer in 8/06...surgery and colostomy done 9/06...chemo until 12/08 at which time our local onc. said nothing left for him to do. So he sent us to Vandy...met with liver surgeon and he said he could have liver resection but he had a spot in his right lung that had to be taken care of first. Referred to Lung surgeon...he said yes he could do lung surgery but Frank would have to quit smoking or no surgery. That night after smoking for 45 years my husband quit "cold turkey" He had lung surgery on 2/10/09 at Vandy ...only had one cancerous met which he removed with 4% of his right lung. He is very weak from that and is still short of breath. Released from lung dr last wk and came today to see liver onc. surgeon. He ran another CT scan and labs...sch to come back next week to have echo & stress test done and meet with cardiologist to get clearance. Embolization is scheduled for next Friday and will spend the night in the hospital. Go home the next day and get to stay home for a month and return on May 1 to have another CT scan and meet again with Liver onc. surgeon to schedule liver resection. That is the plan if nothing does wrong. The liver oncologist today said he felt that the left side of the liver only had two small spots that could easily be burnt or cut out and then removed the right lobe of the liver. He felt this was Frank best chance for a "CURE"....we were in shock...he actually mentioned CURE. We are so happy ...we know there is no guarantees and there are alot of "ifs" but this is the first time anyone has even hinted that there is at least a possibility of NED. Just wanted to share...please keep us in your prayers ...we pray for each of you nightly. You will never know how much support and encouragement we get from reading this site.