RE:JFM - How is your 2024 starting off?Hi SPCEO
Thanks for caring about my situation. I am still on the same chemo that I started last March. It's hard. Tumor load was stable at the last Ga68 scan in October, but nonetheless, hormones markers in the blood are slowly going up. I am waiting for news from my doctors to have what they call hepatic arterial embolization. That's a procedure to block, with smalls polymer beads, the small hepatic arteries irrigating tumors in the liver in order to kill them. it won't cure the cancer, but it could decrease my tumor load in the liver and reduce the hormones secreted by neuroendocrine cancer cells. But the cancer is also in the bones and a few lymphatic nodes.
Again, my cancer is incurable, all I can hope for is to live with it as long as possible as some kind of chronic disease involving a sharp decrease in physical capacities, and life quality, because of the cancer itself, but also because of the side effects of the chemo and other treatments. This chemoembolization procedure from what I read is quite rough for the patient. When it works it's worth it, but you are in for a rough month after the procedure. So it's not easy and I am not talking about the psychological stress, not knowing when this thing will enter the final phase. It can be in a year or if I am lucky with new treatments, it could be in 10 years. I still have a few options, but none is a cure, or guaranteed to work, and none is easy.
So thanks again for caring about me and I hope things are fine for you.
SPCEO1 wrote: I am hopeful you are winning your health battle and that 2024 marks a turn that leads to restored health for you. Keep up the good fight!