Just got back from my last onc visit. My CA 19.9 is still rising, but my PET scan was all clear. The onc recommended more chemo - Xeloda + Avastin and recommended that I seek HIPEC, they're afraid it's brewing. I did go to Wake Forest, went through the pre-screening, and they indicated that I'm a good candidate. However, they did scans and told me that I had three mets on my lung and an enlarged liver. This was all new to me. All previous scans have come back clear, the mets in the periteum have never shown on an CT, PET or MRI. So I was devasted, I had them send their CD's to my onc and at the clinic they scowered over them and looked at all my previous scans and ever repeated the CT, still nothing. The only thing that we can figure out is that Wake Forest they had the scans of the wrong patient. So a person kind of loses confidence in a facility if they can't get the correct scans with the correct patient.
I don't know, we live in SW Mo and I've read on the forum that MD Anderson is now specializing in HIPEC. But, I want to know some hard facts, what recovery like, what's the prognosis? I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around another surgery, yet I feel as though my cancer is like a volcano that could irrupt at any moment.
What do you guys think?