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Update – finally some good news.

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    • November 28, 2011 at 2:53 pm
    emilypen
    Participant

      Hi All,

      Just wanted to give you a quick update on my husband. We had scans last week, week 20 for Ipi response and week 8 for carbo/taxol response.

      We finallly got some good news. No new mets and shrinkage in a good percentage of them. So whether its the chemo or the IPI something is keeping the disease in check. Woohoo!

      The chemo drugs are really tough on his system and he had to have 4 bags of blood and a bag of platelets to get his counts up. They were seriously low…

      Hi All,

      Just wanted to give you a quick update on my husband. We had scans last week, week 20 for Ipi response and week 8 for carbo/taxol response.

      We finallly got some good news. No new mets and shrinkage in a good percentage of them. So whether its the chemo or the IPI something is keeping the disease in check. Woohoo!

      The chemo drugs are really tough on his system and he had to have 4 bags of blood and a bag of platelets to get his counts up. They were seriously low…

      Plus his radiation oncologist has started him on some radiation for his sacrum and spine, just to help resuce the tumour size there.

      No new brain mets either!

       

      So we just keep on keepin on…. he's super fatigued and not really hungry but as our babies due date keeps getting closer we were estatic to hear that there was no new cancer.

      Hope everyone is doing well. Cannot believe it's almost Christmas.

       

      Em

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        • November 28, 2011 at 4:20 pm
        Becky
        Participant

          Yay for good news! Are you having twins? ( or was that baby's due day and not babies?) Either way, pregnancy is such a happy but stressful time, lets hope you guys have a little more happiness and a little less stress.

          hang in there

          Becky

          • November 28, 2011 at 4:20 pm
          Becky
          Participant

            Yay for good news! Are you having twins? ( or was that baby's due day and not babies?) Either way, pregnancy is such a happy but stressful time, lets hope you guys have a little more happiness and a little less stress.

            hang in there

            Becky

              • November 28, 2011 at 7:34 pm
              Lisa13
              Participant

                I'm so happy to hear this news Emily!  Just keep hoping ipi will keep working, keep shrinking and not letting anything new come into play.

                I've got my scan on Wednesday – 16 weeks after ipi. Had 50% regression last time and 2 that grew a little bit, so all I hope and pray for is continued good news. 

                I'm happy your husband has no brain mets.  You never know if ipi is working it's magic inside the brain making sure no micro cells grow for a long time.  

                Keep believing!  I wish you the best of everything with the soon to be new baby. 

                Lisa

                • November 28, 2011 at 7:34 pm
                Lisa13
                Participant

                  I'm so happy to hear this news Emily!  Just keep hoping ipi will keep working, keep shrinking and not letting anything new come into play.

                  I've got my scan on Wednesday – 16 weeks after ipi. Had 50% regression last time and 2 that grew a little bit, so all I hope and pray for is continued good news. 

                  I'm happy your husband has no brain mets.  You never know if ipi is working it's magic inside the brain making sure no micro cells grow for a long time.  

                  Keep believing!  I wish you the best of everything with the soon to be new baby. 

                  Lisa

                  • November 28, 2011 at 7:34 pm
                  Lisa13
                  Participant

                    I'm so happy to hear this news Emily!  Just keep hoping ipi will keep working, keep shrinking and not letting anything new come into play.

                    I've got my scan on Wednesday – 16 weeks after ipi. Had 50% regression last time and 2 that grew a little bit, so all I hope and pray for is continued good news. 

                    I'm happy your husband has no brain mets.  You never know if ipi is working it's magic inside the brain making sure no micro cells grow for a long time.  

                    Keep believing!  I wish you the best of everything with the soon to be new baby. 

                    Lisa

                  • November 28, 2011 at 4:20 pm
                  Becky
                  Participant

                    Yay for good news! Are you having twins? ( or was that baby's due day and not babies?) Either way, pregnancy is such a happy but stressful time, lets hope you guys have a little more happiness and a little less stress.

                    hang in there

                    Becky

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