CT scan results this morning. I’ve now read them, and my oncologist’s notes, four or five times, both before and after coffee.
Everything we knew was cancer has shrunk, especially the liver Wurst. “… reduced in size or nearly completely resolved.”
I haven’t mentioned it here, but my first CT scan found a couple of spots on my lungs, of the sort that would be utterly unremarkable if I didn’t already have cancer, but since I did could be suspicious but were too small to tell, and difficult or impossible to biopsy.
The approach to those was “wait and see” – if the chemo was effective on the known tumors but those spots didn’t shrink, then they were not cancer. I didn’t mention them publicly because there’s absolutely no sense in fussing about a maybe, especially when there were so many legitimate causes for fussing.
They haven’t changed. In oncologist-speak, “Overall reduction of the previously noted metastatic disease involving the liver noted, stable lung nodules.” Thus, not cancer.
I like the CT report’s phrasing of “nearly completely resolved” better, but that’s not too bad either.
So, incredibly good news as I read it, but as always pending further interpretation by experts.
tl;dr: FUCK YEAH!