So, last Friday, 9/11, my father did a blood collection and a bone scan (scintigrapgy). In the previous week, he had a CT scan (we still don't know the results).
My father had scheduled another appointment with his oncologist for tomorrow.
She called him today to communicate that there was no need for him to have a face-to-face consultation and that it would be via phone. She then, very happily, said that she did not understand, but that the bone scintigraphy did not show any metastasis. She also referred to a drop in PSA value before session 5 to 2.7.
We expect CT results, but the consultation and further analysis have been postponed. He will do the 6 and final session in less than three weeks.
Will we be able to be happy (sorry even if I am happy, it seems that I am not allowed, because I do not know if it means something very GOOD or just expected, although good anyway)?
What do you have to say about these results?
Everything you can say and suggest is very precious. Thank you in advance.
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Glad to hear of another brother who is far exceeding Dr's first prognosis. I also had all bone mets and lymph nodes clear up and disappear from bone scans after chemo. and am looking forward to 10 yrs or more to enjoy life with wife and kids and grandkids.
I was also very scared, because hearing the word chemotherapy seemed scary.
The first session was heavy for us, as it took my father to a hospital for 1 week for having a fever. In the following sessions they reduced the dose a little and he has tolerated it well. The first sessions seemed the most difficult in terms of pain. But now towards the end, his complaint is fatigue and some diarrhea.
He will have the last session in less than 3 weeks.
Ah, he had a weakening and some hair loss, but nothing to bother him. I think that was psychologically very significant because he didn't want to go bald, and he went about making his life normally, and quietly, as he wished.
I hope everything goes well with your father.
Congratulations! Interesting though about results. I was most fortunate, after 24 nuclear bone scans and soft tissue CT scans, I always had the result within three hours.... time to get something to eat and then see the MO to go over the scans.
Humm, so it seems strange that there is such a delay in the results of the exams. I don't know why.
The difference is most likely that your guy sends out to be read. My guy was in academia and research - the medical school associated with a hospital and everything was marked “Stat”. The idea being that the researcher needed it right away. So I would start across the street did the test, which took three hours, have lunch and be at my MO appointment at 1 and the tests would be on the system system and we looked at together. I did blood draw the day before fir my convenience. Without scans, blood draw at 10 am and results ready between noon and 1, see MO and out of there... blood draw also marked Stat.
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