Drew Wohl

Just got the report.  I should be a radiologist when I grow up 😀

I had a scan last week and have a copy of the scan itself.  But so far, no official report.  I have a vague sense of how to read things at this point, but far from an expert.  It looks like there is a lot more cavitation (black dots on the image to the left) going on, which seems to indicate the #chemotherapy is working.  There are, however, other tumors that do not seem to be responding, a couple that may have grown and maybe a couple I have not noticed before.  However, with the number of tumors in my lungs,  it is difficult to keep track.  When the reports get down to less than "innumerable" (hopefully), I may start counting again  My back is feeling okay, my breathing is generally okay, but I have learned from the last few scans that is not always predictive to what I will see on the report. So back to #triathlontraining metrics.  In addition to the general concept of trying to improve and gathering information, I look at them to see how ...

Today is a big day.  Get disconnected from my chemotherapy then shortly later go for my scan to see if the chemo is working. At this point I am not sure what to expect.  The few times I felt positive going into scans, such as the 2-1/2 year scan, which would have meant I was probably going to be cancer free, my first immunotherapy scan, my first scan after this new chemotherapy and a scan a few weeks ago have all let-downs.  My cancer was back, the immunotherapy was not working, the chemo was kind of working and the tumors in  my spine were growing. Avistan was added for the last 5 treatments or so there is more time to see if it is working and the spine issues could be inflammation.  I am not sure how much I am buying into either of these at this time.  Usually I should be showing better results this far into this new treatment.  But I have been a bit of an outlier with some things along the way in terms of mets and mutations.  Plus still being a...