It's smaller!

Yippee!
It's all worthwhile!

Just home after our consultation with the SIRT specialist... and learnt, for the first time since we began this journey over a year ago, that my liver's lesions have shrunk!

The MRI and CT scans have shown that the combination of SIRT and avastin/folfox has in the last few months reduced the tumors in my liver "to some degree",  although it is not possible to say which has done what.   But given the way my CEA number has been steadily dropping I'm inclined to believe the MAB/chemo has been more significant, and that the SIRT's impact has turned out to be less than we hoped/prayed for.

But, actually, that's not a bad thing per se, since SIRT was a one-off treatment with a wide variety of possible outcomes, whereas Chemo is an ongoing therapy and will hopefully continue to make a difference over the coming months. ("no reason why not")

And, to add to our joys, the scans showed no developments anywhere else - all our attention can be focused on my liver without worrying about lesions elsewhere.

So GOOD NEWS all round!

In "other news"; Monday was a great day (more brilliant CST),  but the days that followed have been tough, being the most difficult in the 2 week cycle - I've learnt to go with the  flow, take it easy and stick to light duties.  Returning strength today has been well timed!!  And I continue to put on weight... and cough.

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