Thursday, September 16, 2010

Chemo

CyberKnife went well.  The right side of my mouth is a bit raw.  Chewing and eating have been difficult for the last few days, but I won't complain too much.  CyberKnife is amazing technology.

We will be moving forward with chemo.  This was possibly the hardest decision of my life since we don't have any data to suggest we absolutely need chemo.  But that 1 possibility out of 100 or 1000 is enough for me.

The protocol my oncologist emailed to me is identical to this study:
http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/8/1252.abstract

Every 28 days: gemcitabine (gemzar) on days 1,  8, and 15;  cisplatin, days 1 and 8.

Today, we officially made it to 2 years.