Postby boxhill » Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:04 pm
I think everyone should have genetic testing. It determines the best course of treatment, it gives potentially gives information to descendants.
Why not have it?
I gather that my CEA is tested along with everything else before I have my infusions, but they don't bother to tell me what it is because my tumor didn't express it. At surgery, it was 3. A while ago I happened to find out it was 6.
Age is an individual thing. As a physician friend of mine says, there are the "young old" and the "old old." My mother is 95, lives alone in her house, does everything herself except mowing and plowing, reads The Economist and the Wall Street Journal as well as many novels, drives (safely), and occasionally babysits some of her great grandchildren.
The surgeon does indeed sound like a jackass. Luckily, your father will probably not have to have anything further to do with him.
F, 64 at DX CRC Stage IV
3/17/18 blockage, r hemi
11 of 25 LN,5 mesentery nodes
5mm liver met
pT3 pN2b pM1
BRAF wild, KRAS G12D
dMMR, MSI-H
5/18 FOLFOX
7/18 and 11/18 CT NED
12/18 MRI 5mm liver mass, 2 LNs in porta hepatis
12/31/18 Keytruda
6/19 Multiphasic CT LNs normal, Liver stable
6/28/19 Pause Key, predisone for joint pain
7/31/19 Restart Key
9/19 CT stable
Pain: all fails but Celebrex
12/23/19 CT stable
5/20 MRI stable/NED
6/20 Stop Key
All MRIs NED