News from the Cancer Front

So last Thursday George has his visit with the oncologist. The news sounds pretty good to me.All is looking good. No progression. Disease stable and still shrinking. CEA hasn't really gone down that much in the last 3 months, bounces between 17 and 20. That concerned me a little but the oncologist said those are good numbers, down about 97% from where we started so he is not concerned unless they were to double then we would need to see why and perhaps change treatment. All blood work is coming back with really good numbers. Lungs sound good (George had lots of lung mets, most are now gone). All liver panels are good. So, we stay the course and continue with the maintenance chemo of 5FU, Leucovorin weekly adding Avastin every other week. He is maintaining weight, appetite, but some days he is still fatigued but heck, he is working full time and still on chemo. He will scan after next visit in 8 weeks.

So all in all things look good. We celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary on June 19th and last week after the doctor visit had the car already packed and drove to Chicago. George had business in Indiana so I went along, got on a train in Indiana on Friday into Chicago where I met our daughter and had a fabulous mom/daughter day, George drove into Chicago Friday evening and we spent a nice weekend visiting and shopping and of course visiting those fabulous Chicago restaurants.

Take care - Tina