Hi Gloria,

I just discovered this thread (I've spent most of my time in the intro section) and am delighted to hear the good news you've experienced! I hope it continues to be good and even improve!

My distant mets have all been in my liver, and that's a relatively easy organ to treat; in my case, most recently with SIRIspheres, tiny plastic beads, ~ 1/3 the thickness of a human hair, each enclosing a tiny hunk of Yttrium-90, a beta-particle emitter. There has been enormous success with this in Liver Cancer patients and it seems to work equally well on Oropharyngeal mets in the liver.

Yesterday, I had my 14th and final radiation session on a lymph node between the liver and the stomach that we knew about, but left alone while we did the SIRIsphere routine. In that time, it grew from .2 to 4 cm, but I'm confident that the radiation will have zapped it. I really won't know until May 12th when I get a CT with contrast to check. But I'm pretty sure I'll be clean then.

HOWEVER, clean is a temporary word in my world, I know that just like "Whack-a-Mole," it's going to raise its lovely head again; so it's great to learn that new treatment modalities are on hand should it show in the lungs or elsewhere that radiation cannot be used to simply Zap it away.

Best of luck to you and John,

Bart