7-13-2010 Oncologist visit

7-13-2010 Oncologist visit

Quick update -

Visited the oncologist this aftn.

The short version -

I'll have a port put in, probably some time next week, then I'll start chemo sometime after July 24th. He said waiting a while to start will be of no significance.

Dr. R. said nothing has changed with regards to treatment, altho they DID find more lymphoma in my chest on the PET scan. Also, he said the bone marrow showed cancer as well. He had said previously that he wouldn't be surprised if both those things happened.

I'll have chemo every three weeks, 6 treatments.

Following that, I'll have 4 treatments with 6 months between each.

He said they'd probably do a PET scan after 3 treatments or so to see how it's going.

I asked how long he thought I'd had the lymphoma and he said "years".