lisa

Hi Jim,
Here is an article which explains cc, treatments, resection, and survival rates.

http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/cgi/reprint/9/1/43

Good news, Carrie Ann! We like to prove the experts wrong and demonstrate that chemo does work for some people.

Jean, as far as I know I don’t have any lymph node involvement as of yet. My next scan is in February, so I continue to hope and pray for the best. I was just asking so that I have an idea of what to watch out for.

Timely subject. I’m going in next week to talk to my hospital’s social worker about taking a medical retirement. I do have short and long term disability insurance, and want to make sure that I can get to use it before I’m laid off. I work in the real estate industry, and not to borrow trouble, but sometimes you see the writing on the wall!

Hi Tony,
Keep up the fighting spirit! I will pray for good news on the scan. I think that chemo does work for some people, in combination with radiation, and you may be one of those people. The only thing we know for sure about this disease is that no one knows for sure what course it will take.

Welcome to the site! I hope that you find tons of information and support here. May I ask which lymph nodes were involved in your cancer? I’m worried about mine.

I hope your chemo shrinks those tumors.

Enjoy your little one!

Lisa

Hi Alex,
My oncologist didn’t say whether or not he accounted for the four week delay. My second scan was three months later, and after radiation and chemo showed amost a 50% reduction in tumor size.

That reduction has been the extent of the tumor shrinkage, and has lasted for about a year now. My oncologist is very pleased that it’s stable. It went from 6 cm to a little less than 3 cm.

In March 08 a resection was attempted, but due to involvement of the inferior vena cava, the resection was unsuccessful. I did recover very quickly after surgery and (despite a 16 inch scar) went back to work two weeks post surgery.

God bless,
Lisa