I never really posted our recent good news since we were working out the rest of the treatment details. We got the most recent PET/CT results last week and the lung mets have resolved again. So here we are...dx as stage 4 in late 2005/lung mets. 6 chemo/25 radiation at start followed by Ivor Lewis and lung resect. 2nd lung resect late 2006 positive. 8 more chemo in 2007/recurrence in both lungs after resect. 11 more chemo in 2008 with recurrence at lower dosage (all chemos were cisplatin, docetaxel and irinotecan). 5 chemos in 2009 (used EOX this time).
We now stand at 30 chemos for EC with recurrent lung mets and are headed towards the 4th anniversary at the start of December. He is finishing his Xeloda now so will be done with chemo by Thursday (I suspect the side effects will have him off it before then). He has had numerous chemo breaks, and we are delighted to be heading into another. He bounces back quickly once we stop the Xeloda, so I anticipate he will be back to whatever is normal at this point very soon.
They continued to be amazed by his resiliency with some very tough chemo regimens, as well as the fact that we keep beating the mets into submission. I keep reminding them I tap my doll. We sweat results and then the oncologist says things like she totally expected to see him do this again. She gave him six months at the start and a few months ago said she expects we will be doing this for years. It's not easy, but we feel very blessed and thankful, and will take as much time as we can get out of it.