I had to have an MRI of my chest because Dr. Lee couldn't quite tell what was happening with the tumor in the breast. The result of the MRI is good news! The MRI could not pick up any visible spots on my liver, nor could it detect any cancer in the lymph nodes. Best of all, it seems that the tumor in the breast is breaking up into smaller pieces. Dr. Lee described it like a meteor hitting the earth's atmosphere and breaking into smaller meteorites. Nice huh?
Every bit of good news must be coupled with not so good news. My body is unable to handle 3 week treatments any more. After 7 months of poison killing my blood as soon as my body can make it I'm just not able to rebound well enough to make the 3 week treatment possible. However, since the treatments are going so well, Dr. Lee doesn't think that it would do too much harm to just push them out to every 4 weeks. It'll give my body time to recover and hopefully I'll be able to be consistent.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Monday, June 12, 2006
When it rains, it just rains.
The results of my CT scan were very good. Of the many cancerous spots on my liver, only two remain and they're quite small. Woohoo for my liver! Herceptin is indeed a wondrous drug if it can get these kinds of results. Even if my heart is a little taxed by the medicine it's great to see my liver looking practically normal. However, the results of my CT scan were also…questionable. That is, the doctors cannot quite figure out what is going on in my breast, and I will need to have an MRI so they can have a more in-depth look at it. Hopefully the results of the MRI will be available this Friday when I'm back at the doctor's office for Round 9 of treatment.
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