Monday, January 30, 2017

Did April Fool’s Day Come Early This Year?

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Last month, I spent a night in the hospital after a liver embolization.  I stayed in a very small double room with a roommate.  Recently, I...
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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Second Time for Bland Liver Embolization

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Wow! It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post!  Since my last post in August, I had another CT scan in November that showed that the gro...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Bland Liver Embolization was a Success!

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On July 15 th , I had a bland liver embolization on the right/middle of my liver.  This is a minimally invasive surgical procedure where “b...
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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) Did Not Work for Me

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Ugh, after one round of PRRT with Lu-177-dota-JR11, my existing tumors progressed in the liver and there was also a new tumor seen there.  ...
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Monday, May 30, 2016

When Breath Becomes Air

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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is one of the best books I’ve read about the experience of life, cancer and mortality.  The autho...
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Saturday, April 9, 2016

Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) Clinical Trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering

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It’s been a long time since my last post.  I have been doing a lot of procedures for the PRRT clinical trial that I am a participant in at ...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

So Much for Tumor Stability

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I am now off the Cabozantinib clinical trial. My latest MRI showed 11% growth in my tumors since the last scan on November 22 nd .  Basical...
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