Hey all, I hope you are all as well as can be. I've been missing in action for a while, life has been busy!
So after 3 rounds of GemCis and feeling remarkably better my chemotherapy journey has ended. It is not working according to the scan. I have questions that I need to ask my consultant about this. The main one being, why I feel so much better! Also my last scan was 5th Jan 25, I didn't start chemotherapy til April, my last scan showed no spread but still prevalent in lymph node. So I am wondering how much it had grown in three months seeing as the scan I had in November only showed up an ovarian cyst..
Anyway, today I start atezolizumab to see if that makes a difference. Hoping that this is the one that works for me. I am going in pretty positive as my brother has had great results on a trial immutherapy for his leukemia, its all in the genes right?
Hope you are all good and enjoying the sunshine again
Good luck with the Atezolizumab. If it works for you, immunotherapy is great. I stopped another type early for side effects (though as the oncologist said at least it showed it was working, just not the way they wanted for me!).
Fingers crossed this is the one.
All the best,
Latestart
ps, by the end of 4 rounds of GemCis I was shattered. And they said it had worked ok on 1 type of cell but not on another which made up just under half of my cancer - maybe that was similar for you? Anyway they got it all out when they operated. And my immunotherapy was belt and braces after that.
Hey Latestart,
I have everything crossed this will work
Unfortunately I haven't been offered surgery, it was a flat no. I agree gemcis is a wiper of energy. I was secretly quite happy to not have anymore!
First immunotherapy down and it was absolutely fine so now to manifest it doing it's job
Thanks Nana
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