Team Georgia: Glad Tidings as Cycle 5 Chemo Flows In

Greetings to you all,

I have results from the CT scan post Cycle 4 treatment. Again, all is well! We give thanks for this result.

The target tumours are stable, showing no growth since the CT scan post Cycle 2. YEY!!!!!!!!!!
We celebrated by going out to Vietnamese for a light post-chemo meal.

Chemotherapy for Cycle 5 began today (Wednesday) and we'll be back for more on Thursday and Friday this week. The side-effects during Cycle 4 were more persistant when compared to the previous cycles, so I am going to take this one cautiously. I met with the Doctor today and he felt I was handling the chemo extremely well, dealing with the side-effects in a positive/preventative manner where possible. It just is the reality that the toxicity levels rise the more chemo cycles you have so the effects are longer lasting over the three week period. It was great to get this feedback as I don't have much of a frame of reference.Apart from some international forums I am participating in, I haven't actually met an LMS contact in Australia yet.

I have one cycle to go after this one (Cycle 6). The Picasso III trial should close by the end of November, apart from having monthly checks to add more data to the study.

I thought you might like to see me out and about so here are some pics: