Thursday, October 30, 2008

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.

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