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Posted 24 May 2018 at 19:33

I shall be taking a break from PCa treatment to concentrate on Bladder Cancer treatment. It has returned after six years and the Mets in my liver (40%) and peritoneum are due to BC not PCa.  Treatment will be three cycles of gemcis followed by a scan to assess progress then three more cycles. After that,  Keytruda, an immunological agent is available via the Cancers Drugs Fund. I had hoped to go straight to this but NICE haven't licensed it for use in that way.  Last time I used gemcis, it had  ba side beneficial effect on my PSA level, so all is not lost!

User
Posted 24 May 2018 at 20:08

Admire your positivity, AC. Not sure what your new treatment for BC entails, but best wishes and hope everything goes OK

 

Best regards

User
Posted 24 May 2018 at 20:10
Hope everything works out for you, as stated above I too have no knowledge of BC treatments but I wish you well for the coming weeks, months etc.
User
Posted 24 May 2018 at 20:41
What rotten luck AC - hope the medication works well
Barry
User
Posted 24 May 2018 at 21:03

Sorry to read this AC but hoping the medication dones it’s job.

Ian

Ido4

User
Posted 24 May 2018 at 22:37
Sorry to hear this, hope it all goes well and you sail through it.

regards barbara

User
Posted 24 May 2018 at 22:56
AC, you are falling apart! Wishing you swift treatment and better news soon.
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

User
Posted 24 May 2018 at 23:18

I am so sorry to read this, AC.  Good luck with everything.

Ulsterman

 

User
Posted 25 May 2018 at 08:59

Good luck AC

"Incurable cancer does not mean it is untreatable and does not mean it is terminal either"
User
Posted 25 May 2018 at 09:04
AC

After all you have been through there was I expecting some good news, sadly not so. I like your spirit of looking for the postive so indeed hope that not only is BC sorted but it also helps fights PCa.

Good luck

Ray

User
Posted 25 May 2018 at 17:09

Thinking of you AC

 

Regards Barry

User
Posted 25 May 2018 at 17:36
Lyn,

Just to reassure you, I'm not falling apart! I confess to tenderness across my diaphragm, reduced appetite and a feeling of fullness, which is down to either healing from the three big needles thrust between my ribs or maybe swelling due to the tumour in my liver. Whatever, I expect this to start reducing as I begin my double chemo on Tuesday after the Bank Holiday. I call that pretty damn quick! Turns out it was 2011 when I last had this combination of Gemcitabine and Cisplatin (gemcis for short), the year before I had my bladder out, at which time there was no trace of BC, so I know it works for seven years, which at 75 nearly, might just do me. Just such a pain that it was lurking somewhere in my body ready to invade my liver in recent months.

Apart from the tenderness, fullness, I'm in pretty fair fettle - dog walking twice a day, gardening, keeping the grey cells busy with puzzles and irritating my fellow parish councillors twice a month with views more progressive than some can stomach!

In short, onwards and upwards. Should be good for a few years yet!

AC

User
Posted 25 May 2018 at 17:58

Hi AC sorry to hear your latest update it’s seems to have gone a bit Pete tong but don’t worry I am joining you there

all the very best 

si 

Don't deny the diagnosis; try to defy the verdict
User
Posted 25 May 2018 at 22:26
Good evening AC,

I am sorry to read your latest news.

I'll keep all my digits crossed for you.

dave

All we can do - is do all that we can.

So, do all you can to help yourself, then make the best of your time. :-)

I am the statistic.

 
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