Today and Tomorrow

Today's radiotherapy meeting well.

Whilst tthe oncology team suggested that cure from chemotherapy and radiotherapy was very unlikely due to the bulk and location of the tumour, radiotherapy clearly see it as a possiblity.

I will have six weeks of radiotherapy and it will be administerted five days a week.  This will take place after the initial intravenous and tablet based chemotherapy cycle of three weeks.  I will also take chemotherapy tablets every day  (capecitabine) whilst the radiotherapy is on-going.

I feel very good about getting back into treatment and the obvious aim is to get to a position where cure is possible.  Anything more is a bonus, anything less is a disaster.

It was suggested that I might be very tired by the end of the radiotherapy and that blood transfusions will be administered if by haemaglobin levels fall below 12.  At last count my haemaglobin levels were 14.3 which is in the normal male range between 14-16.   This should be put into perspective against my lows with anaemia at the beginning of the year of 7.5.

So, it is straight in to chemotherapy tomorrow; there is no peace for the wicked!

A tough period ahead but let's just say it would good to put this beast under pressure - I refer to the cancer, of course!