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Dear Kris,
Thank you for your comforting words. I’ve contacted my husband’s oncologist. His chemo-radiation therapy will start from tomorrow. Hopefully it will work. God bless us all.
Dear Kris,
Thank you for your reply.
I’m in a bad mood today. Because I just found that my husband’s CA 19-9 has rised very much. It was 505 two months ago, was 6100 one month ago, now is 45121!
I can’t help regretting that I made a wrong decision. If I didn’t waste so much time on the option of transplant, he should have had the therapy three months ago.
Dear Lana, Marions and Gene,
Thank you for your kind words and suggestions.
My husband has a 3 cm tumor at the bifurcation, and it extends along the ducts into the liver both the right and left directions to about 6 cm. So surgical resection is not available for him.
According to my husband’s oncologists, Mayo’s data is the only data reported so far. They seem not to believe that and they wouldn’t give my husband brachytherapy. It’s so difficult for me to “push” the docs here to follow Mayo’s protocol. All of them are experts, and English is not my native language, how can I persuade them?
Since our insurance is HMO, and UCDMC is my husband’s assigned medical group, we can go nowhere without UCDMC’s authorization. I don’t know why they gave us authorization last time, but this time they want to keep my husband here. It’s so frustrating, not only my husband’s disease, but also all these medical and insurance issues. I only hope God will bless us.
