Last visit with Dr. Nguyen May 2007

I saw Dr. Nguyen this afternoon....

I will have my port taken out and put back in on Tuesday, May 29th. We'll do this in Bessemer at the new Surgery Center. Dr. Issis will do the minor surgery.

Dr. Nguyen has talked with Rachel's doctor about what we should do. (By the way...Rachel is doing very well. She has been on maintenance chemo for over a year and is hopefully about to stop) She has been very helpful to me and very encouraging!

Dr. Nguyen has suggested I start a regimen of chemo in the next few weeks, not sure exactly when. I would do two weeks of chemo and then off for a week. That will complete one cycle. Then I will have two more weeks of chemo and then off a week. You guessed it, that will complete two cycles. Then I will most likely have scans to see if we are getting positive results from this. I am not sure how long I will remain on this chemo regimen. Dr. Nguyen said it could be 6 months, maybe a year. We won't know until we see how my body reacts to the chemo and we see if we are getting a positive response, ie...is the liver tumor along with the lung nodules...are they shrinking? That will be the big question.

The name of the two chemo drugs I may possibly start are:

Irinotecan & Vincristine

That is where we are for now.

I'll be in touch!

Kelly