I am not sure if my last post was sent to the forum, so here goes again...
Paul had his fifth Carbo Platin infusion on Thursday of last week.
Thje oncologist says that bloods are still okay. AST and ALT are still moving back into normal range. Paul mentioned how fatigued he is all the time and oncologist said this was pretty normal at this stage. One more infusion on 28 December and then CT and bone scan early in the new year to see the overall success of the Carbo treatment.
Paul is doing so very well and being so strong.
Mel.
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Could you just tell me what you would like to tell me? I cannot search the forum at the moment for your bio or anything like that. What is it that you would like to tell me?
I have a vision impairment and it is quite difficult for me to navigate large websites (like this one). So I can't go back over old posts very well.
But regarding your question: Paul was diagnosed in 2003 and had first radiation treatment and then anti-hormone treatment until 2014 when the doctors saw the PSA rising and asked him whether he wanted to do Chemo or Zytiga and he decided to do Zytiga. He got two and a half years out of it. PSA dropped to 0.05 and some of the mets disappeared according to bone and CT scan. But then PSA started to rise again and in summer of this year Paul began to have symptoms like nausea, weight loss and an uncomfortable feeling around the liver. A CT and bone scan showed that the cancer had spread aggressively into the liver. So now his only option was Chemo. He started with Docetaxol but it didn't work for the liver mets. So this is why he is now on Carbo.
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