Good-ish
I was surprised and a little embarrassed to see that I have my every-other-week clinical trial checkup on Monday , meaning it has been almost two weeks since I had my first scans on this trial and I still haven�t written an update. Well, patient reader, in a nutshell my scans were good-ish. The lungs and body appear unchanged, and while there were no new spots on the brain, the New Guy (the brain met that was my ticket into the StarTrk-2 trial) looked mostly the same but a little bit rounder with some edema. Since we don�t know what happened during the agonizing 18 days that I was off all treatment, letting the cancer grow completely unfettered, the doc is calling it stable. And stable is good. The next scans will give us a better sense of how this drug will work on my cancer. Guess when the next scans are - my birthday. I�m going to take that as a good omen. I�m coping okay with the new drug, entrectinib. I had a whole laundry list of side effects to tell my trial doctor about:...