Great news! Have a wonderful holiday!

I hope that the lung procedure went well and that you have a restful holiday.

Sending positive vibes.

Slippery elm is awesome stuff

I love seeing this. Thank you so much for sharing!

My husband's CEA was recently 2.9 which was a jump from 2.2 three months ago. We were concerned until we read that hyperglycemia positively correlates with CEA. When my husband gets extremely stressed, e.g. morning of surgery, recent scanxiety on day of scan review during a time of enormous work str...

Awesome!!!

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I vacillate between wanting to have an explanation for these statements in question and just letting it be. As some people here already know, I have reviewed images myself from the CDs in the past. My husband always gets liver MRIs (at least since 2017 when his Mass General oncologist dropped the ba...

Wish we could do this. However, we have to travel and get the scans within 18 hours of the oncologist consult the following day. The reports never get released until at least 48 hours after the scan and that's when they are on weekdays. Because we come from out of town and my husband's schedule is s...

Someone responded elsewhere that this could be a good layperson's interpretation: 1) There is a section of the sigmoid colon that is now visible without distention (enlargement). There is no mass in this section. 2) There is a feature in the caudate resected zone that appears to be on the surface bu...

I really don't like how we get these reports AFTER our oncologist appointment to review the results. I always have questions like this that I cannot possibly ask at the appointment. What do you guys think these passages from the CT report mean? 1) Focal nondistended region of the sigmoid colon is ne...

"Unfortunately, the initial results from people I’m following are not encouraging. Most people have progression, some have stability. But that’s what we would expect from Regorafenib monotherapy." Can you clarify? Are you saying that the results of most people you are following who are tak...

Best of luck next week. Keep us posted!

Thanks, gravelguy. Actually, he is NED. Has been since March surgery (liver #2). I really hope that the one pesky met that popped up after his first liver surgery (Jan 2018 surgery, found met Dec 2018) was just a micromet that was missed. His Mass General docs did not have him do mop-up chemo which ...

My husband and I went to Weill-Cornell last week and went over the genomic testing (“Oncomine”) results from the metastasis that was removed in March. I found it very interesting that the “met” that was tested had only two (tp53 and apc) of the three mutations that the primary tumor (tp53, apc, and ...

I don't think that any paperwork requirement makes a dent in the time it takes to schedule an implantation surgery at MSK. My husband decided that he wanted to go ahead with the pump on or around February 2nd and he was offered a surgery date of February 14th. Maybe "paperwork" was started...