Yesterday I had my six month check-up at Sloan Kettering with Dr. Zelenetz. I didn't have a CAT scan, since I only have one/yr. now.
Had no issues – blood work was fine, BP 111/68 and I weighed 164.7 lbs with my pants on. That's up from the 151 I weighed when I left Sloan in January, '06 after my high dose chemo and autologous stem cell transplant. RATS – the one good thing about the whole chemo deal (besides it supressed/destroyed my cancer) was my weight went down to almost my rugby-playing weight.
I have actually lost about 4 pounds recently. Tim and I are having a competition to see who gets to 160 first.
We briefly discussed newer treatments for mantle cell and Dr. Z. mentioned several new medicines. I also reminded him that the last time we'd met in January, he'd mentioned that he'd recently co-written a paper saying that for some people who'd had my therapy, it was probably curative. (All along, he has told me that mantle cell recurs.)
Evidently it has to do with people who had 30% or less of their cancer cells active (he didn't use the term active – can't remember the actual term! – but that's what I believe it meant). So, naturally I asked him my percent. When he went to the computer he said that they didn't have that data for everyone, and when he found me in the database, indeed, I had incomplete data. He said the pathology slides just weren't good enough at that time to make the determination.
All in all, a good day.
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