Visit with the Onc

At first I hesitated to post with all the bad news on the board the last few weeks but thought about it a little more and realized we need to hear the good news also. After the PA was done with us in walks the onc with 2 residents with him. Now there are 6 people in a very small room. He starts out by saying he is amazed. With George's advanced Stage IV cancer, the most he was hoping for was to stabilize the cancer and get him a little more time. As it stands today, George is doing better than he ever expected. He said that you very, very rarely see this good of a response and if we are not church goers, we should be and if we are, we should go more often to give thanks. CEA is a good indicator for George and it continues to drop. All his liver function stuff is coming back excellent, like there is no disease there. His lungs sound really good and all blood work is better than we should have expected. For now, we are going to stay the course and hopefully we keep going in the direction we are. He finished by saying now get out of here and I will see you in 6 weeks instead of 4. So we will continue with the 5FU and Leucovorin every week adding Avastin every oter week for a 6 week cycle, then 2 weeks off the 5FU and Leucovorin then back on for another 6 week cycle (little confusing but I think I got it right). Well thats it for now. I got some research to do on the Karmanos Cancer Institute for that second opinion on the liver and lung, who knows, maybe we will reach the point where we can do some type of radiation or treatment option on those pesky mets. Take care - Tina