Guest guest Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 , That is great news!!! Keep up your positive healing. Yes, you are so right that we need more positive posts from survivors. We need to be reminded that a lot survive. Ingrid > > Surgery 4/7/04- stage 3b with 1 poisitive node. Six months folfox 6. I keep > track of medical milage for tax purposes and am almost at 11,000 miles for the > year. I live in Norht Al and go to Vanderbilt for treatment. After a lot of > scares this year I now have a good CT and PET and 4 consecutive good blood > samples. Onc said to go away for a while . I will go back in Feb for cea and > blood work. It will be great not driving to the doctor all the time. Based on > current conditions Onc siad we should only be doing an annual CT now but we > agreed on cea every 3 months and CT every six months. I went to Vanderbilt > today and got there early --9AM - so I would have results for 11:20 appointment. > CEA was below 2 again which made me glad I got there early so I would not > have to wait. > Onc and I discussed neuropathy. With more data the neuropathy is worse than > originally thought. Latest data is 5% of people with grade 3 or 4 neuropathy > and 25% with grade 1 or 2. Data originally thought improvement during first 6 > months after chemo and stopped after 12 months. Latest data shows continued > improvement out to 18 months after chemo. > Checked cancer survivors network tonight and noted a couple of stage 4 > posters -colon and liver- who were now NED . Encouraging. We need positive post to > remind people it is possible to survive. > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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