Man this has been a long tiring road of tests. Long story short, my DH John’s CEA suddenly started going up in February and after a litany of tests we just got the results from his MRI. Good news is they only found one spot, but bad news is his oncologist is pretty sure this is the reason for the CEA increase. He’s getting a biopsy to be sure, and he likes to remind me that it could still possibly be something else. So in that spirit I won’t say he officially has a reoccurrence but we won’t know anything for two weeks and my brain can’t sit still.
She brought up resection, possible further chemo and a bio-something treatment? She was talking off the top of her head so fast that I can’t remember the whole word, I wasn’t sure if anyone here could fill in the gap on what that might be? Was liver resection surgery difficult to recover from? He only has experience from his emergency colon resection and ostomy creation, then they ostomy removal surgery. I’ve read about the HAI pump, is that just for people who have a lot of liver mets or difficult cases? What kind of chemo is usually used, more Folfox and oxalplatin or something else? I think she mentioned the biopsy might show what will work best? Once we have the biopsy results, are there any questions we should be asking?
Sorry for all the questions, I just don’t know what to mentally prepare myself for and I know from experience going to Google for answers would be bad. I wish I could shut my brain up but it keeps trying to plan for the future.