Postby plastikos » Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:03 am
Just thought I’d bump this thread up. Maybe some of us need to hear stories from time to time. I know I do.
As for me, I am approaching my 3 year mark from diagnosis in late 2014. I have had some wonderful periods of being NED and hopefully will enter another one soon. Hopefully for good. A lot has changed after having 2 recurrences. I am more pragmatic now. Not pessimistic, but just realizing and accepting that I am in this for the long haul. I used to think, maybe rather naively, that if I just finished the chemo I would be cured forever. I know it happens to a lucky few but in reality most aren’t so lucky. But my sheer will to survive has not changed. I’ll do anything. And I think that’s the only way to approach this enemy if one wants to survive.
St. IV Colon CA @ 37, male, Kras wild, MSI-high (2014)
11/2014 Right Hemicolectomy + Liver Resection
12/2014 - 6/2015 FOLFOX + Cetuximab
10/2015 - Recurrence liver
Liver resection 10/2015
FOLFIRI 11/2015 - 5/2016
Recurrence liver, nodes 11/2016
Pembrolizumab started 12/2016 -> pseudoprogression(?) -> biliary obstruction -> biliary stenting
Chemo 4x: most mets inactive and smaller on PET-CT
March 2017 - Back on Pembrolizumab again
Sept 2017 - SIRT - > NED
2019 NED