Hello! My CT scan showed strong good effect, significant shrinkage of my tumour in the inside edge of my left lung, and no other tumours visible. My Oncologist is very pleased with this result and confirmed treatment 'Plan A' of a third chemo, followed by radiation to stamp it out.

In fact I'm in my hospital room at the Royal Marsden having had my dose of Cisplatin last night and they've now just started the 5FU which will be administered for four days constant slow drip.

Kerri, in my case they were able to test a sample of my new tumour and confirm it's the same cancer having re-appeared in a new place. They took a needle biopsy through my ribs and lung - that was a new experience! But not terrible.

Terrib, I think you may have confused me for someone else? In fact my cancer is bog standard metastatic recurrence of the Squamous Cell Carcinoma I had in my tonsil, I had a psychotic reaction to something at the end of my treatment, could not swallow, but don't recall trouble breathing. And I'm not part of any trials or study; just going through the standard treatment for this, granted rare, metastatic recurrence. Of course they'll learn something, but my path at this point is not too esoteric.

So far this morning I feel pretty ok. I expect this to change as these drugs do their work with the unfortunate collateral damage, but oh well!

Cheers,

-Seth