Judiek
08-10-2004, 12:22 PM
Hello to All,
Had my Ct scan yesterday and results were good.
This is after 18 treatments of avastin and taxol (clinical study) 3 weeks on, one off, 6 rounds or 6 months.
CT of brain-negative
Ct of chest-lung lesions and pleural effusion still gone-No new lesions
Ct of liver-has a little more shrinkage. I still have all 7 hypodense lesions. Largest is 2.1cm...was 2.6 on June 8th...so slight decrease. The other 6 are 1cm or less...again slight decrease. No new lesions. Doctor said the lesions don’t look like solid tumors...more mushy, like my gallbladder. It is very possible that these cells are dead. If this is the case it can take some time for them the go completely away or become scar tissue. (I am paraphrasing what he said). So, he is very happy that we are still making progress and we will stay on this same treatment. Tumor marker down more...these don’t work for everyone, but seems to be working for me. I am happy with my results!
Thanks to all of you for your support and prayers...couldn’t get through all this without all of you. My best to all, take care.
Warmly,
Judie
History
Discovered lump Sept. 2002 (mammo didn’t pick it up)
Dx Oct 2002-just turned 41
IDC and pagets disease, stage 2B, grade 3/3, nottingham scale 9/9
3cm, lumpectomy,clean margins
er/pr-pos, her2 neg, 2/25 nodes w/cancer
Nov 2002-March 2003-FEC (5fu, epirubicen, cytoxen)
March 2003- started tamoxifen
May 2003- finished rads (33tx)
June 2003-CT/PET Scan- clear
Started 3 month check ups w/lab
Dec 2003-complete hysterectomy
Jan 2004-extensive mets, both lungs & liver(labs normal)
Jan 2004-stopped tamoxifen
Feb 2004 CEA-23 (0-3 normal) CA27.29-66.1 (0-38 normal)
Feb 23to current-clinical trial, taxol & avastin
April 15th, 2004-CT-significant shrinkage on all tumors/pleural effusion gone
June 8th 2004-CT-all liver lesions decreased in size/lung mets gone
Aug 9th, 2004-CA27.29 is 22.3, CEA is 1)
Aug 9th, 2004-Brain-CT neg, lung mets/pleural effusion still gone, liver mets had slight shrinkage.
Had my Ct scan yesterday and results were good.
This is after 18 treatments of avastin and taxol (clinical study) 3 weeks on, one off, 6 rounds or 6 months.
CT of brain-negative
Ct of chest-lung lesions and pleural effusion still gone-No new lesions
Ct of liver-has a little more shrinkage. I still have all 7 hypodense lesions. Largest is 2.1cm...was 2.6 on June 8th...so slight decrease. The other 6 are 1cm or less...again slight decrease. No new lesions. Doctor said the lesions don’t look like solid tumors...more mushy, like my gallbladder. It is very possible that these cells are dead. If this is the case it can take some time for them the go completely away or become scar tissue. (I am paraphrasing what he said). So, he is very happy that we are still making progress and we will stay on this same treatment. Tumor marker down more...these don’t work for everyone, but seems to be working for me. I am happy with my results!
Thanks to all of you for your support and prayers...couldn’t get through all this without all of you. My best to all, take care.
Warmly,
Judie
History
Discovered lump Sept. 2002 (mammo didn’t pick it up)
Dx Oct 2002-just turned 41
IDC and pagets disease, stage 2B, grade 3/3, nottingham scale 9/9
3cm, lumpectomy,clean margins
er/pr-pos, her2 neg, 2/25 nodes w/cancer
Nov 2002-March 2003-FEC (5fu, epirubicen, cytoxen)
March 2003- started tamoxifen
May 2003- finished rads (33tx)
June 2003-CT/PET Scan- clear
Started 3 month check ups w/lab
Dec 2003-complete hysterectomy
Jan 2004-extensive mets, both lungs & liver(labs normal)
Jan 2004-stopped tamoxifen
Feb 2004 CEA-23 (0-3 normal) CA27.29-66.1 (0-38 normal)
Feb 23to current-clinical trial, taxol & avastin
April 15th, 2004-CT-significant shrinkage on all tumors/pleural effusion gone
June 8th 2004-CT-all liver lesions decreased in size/lung mets gone
Aug 9th, 2004-CA27.29 is 22.3, CEA is 1)
Aug 9th, 2004-Brain-CT neg, lung mets/pleural effusion still gone, liver mets had slight shrinkage.