Treatment #2 results

We received disappointing news today regarding our 2nd line of Chemotherapy. Dennis's CEA-tumor markers have been increasing and the scans verified that his liver disease is progressing. We will begin a new line of treatment tomorrow changing to Erbitux with CPT 11. It will be IV infused at home on a weekly basis for 8 weeks by a chemotherapy nurse. We will meet with Dr. Ardalan on November 13 for an review of this 3rd line of therapy. Dennis is discouraged but ready to resume the "attack" on cancer tomorrow. Once a Marine always a Marine.

Update on treatment

Sorry for the lack of updates but we really have nothing to report. We had treatment in Miami Sept 23-24 and Sept 30-Oct 1. We are on our "off week" and our next treatments are Oct 14-15 and Oct 21-22. I continue to press the Dr for information but they are unable to guesstimate progress until the next round of scans which will be done during the last week of October after these next chemotherapies. Luckily we seem to pass the initial screeing each week and Dennis is strong enough to withstand the chemo combination. His weight remains steady at 180. He seems to have more energy and has been walking,riding bikes and even cutting the grass again. No report of any pain which is also a good sign. So we wait and hope that we are making progress.
Our goal is to shrink the tumors in his liver enough that he can have his liver resectioned. They can remove up to 80% of the liver and amazingly it will regrow!
We are taking a respite and heading back to Wyoming Oct 7-12. We look forward to seeing Natalie and Brian,fall weather,the mountains and a football game.