CT Scan result and Bevacizumab Maitenance

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Hello all you lovely people,

During a 7 day stqy in hospital for the 2nd time in 6 weeks due to me not handling my chemo for my last 2 cycles. I was being treated for a urine infection this time but turned out to be my body had grown 2 bugs that had gone into my blood stream making me very poorly. 2 lots of antibiotics to treat the bugs and sent home,

Sorry i am going a long way for a short cut. During the stay i had a CT scan to see how my unwelcomed visitor was behaving. CT scan shown that my cancer had shrunk but appeared to still be hanging about. I was told i have pin pricks in my pelvis and a 2cm noggle under my liver after my de-bulking OP in July,

My hospital stay was in a general medical ward so the Dr could not go into any detail with my scan results. I had a quick chat with my Consultant but she just told me very little about my CT scan apart from echoing the same as the medical Drr and that she would go into the results in more details next Monday.. She did mentioned that i would not be having the 6th and last round of chemo due to the fact i have not quality of life and i am picking up far to many infections.

I felt very deflated and disapointed that i never got the NED result i had hoped for..........

My consultant has said she is going to put me Bevacizumab as a maitenance treatment and i wondered if anyone after this treatmen got a NED result after it?

Thank You in advance

  • Hi shellyp,

    I am sorry to read that you have been having a really rough time of it.  Although I have no experience of the Bevacizumab maintenance treatment, I wanted to reach out and give you some support.  It is not any easy thing to wait for answers and especially not getting the result you were hoping for, Monday must seem a long way off at the moment.  This makes it hard to lift yourself up too. However, the option of a maintence drug is encouraging even though it does not feel like it right now.  You have a lot to take in with only the partial information until Monday and the stress and anxiety will be filling all the gaps in.  I always find once I have all the information it helps me to refocus and move through the fears and anxieties and uncertainties that cancer brings with it.

    Be kind to yourself and take this one step at a time, do only what you can realistically manage.  Do come back and let us know how you get on.  There is always support here.  In the meantime, I wish you all the very best and take care.

    Sending you a very big supportive (((Hug)) xxx

    Ourgirlinthenorth 

  • Ourgirlinthenorth, Thznk you for answering my post with a lovely supportive reply. 

    Sending Hugs back xxx