It's Back!!! Or should I say it probably never left...I have been going through tests for the last two weeks due to a swollen stomach on my right side. After the sonograms, ct scans, mri's and biopsies...the word is in, cancer has spread to my liver.
There are 6 lesions with the largest being 3 inches...we have seen 3 oncologists and all agree that it is inoperable due to the sizes, it would not leave enough liver to regenerate.
Our best hope is a clinical trial that CTRC is conducting right now on head & neck cancers and it's spread. I will be getting the standard Chemo drugs plus the trial drug. Should start this week. They hope for remission with this new drug.
What do I vent about??? In my mind if the doctors all know that this cancer throws off tumors WHY did no one ever say - let's do a ct scan of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis and see if this has spread. Maybe they would have caught this sooner. I know that I am not in the medical field as some of you are and there may be a good reasonable answer..but I never thought that a SCC of the tonsil would end in the liver (and probably other places, we are still waiting for the bone scan)
If it had not been for Brian mentioning the digestive track on a message a couple of weeks ago I might have totally blown off this swelling for a while longer. And it's advanced enough they wanted to start chemo yesterday!!
Vent is over now - thanks for listening and all I can say is: Brian...this board is the best service to cancer patients and survivors that I have found.
Take care all,
Dinah