The doctor's appointments went pretty good last week. They have decided to introduce a chemotherapy drug called Carbopaltin that will be administered through an IV at the same time he gets the Avastin. They are not putting a port in at this time and treatment time is now a few hours instead of just an hour or so. He got his first dosage of both drugs last Wednesday and has been a little more tired and irritable and his appetite is starting to change a little. Yesterday he wasn't very hungry for lunch or a snack but Mom and I grilled dinner for Mother's Day and he went back for seconds and even had dessert!
The picture below is a comparison of MRI's.. the one on the left is from last week and the one on the right is from roughly two months ago. The original tumor is the top spot of the scan and the doctor said it's looking smaller. However there is a second spot that has gotten larger, that's the lower spot. They don't seem too concerned about it at this point and are just going to keep an eye on it. It's not worth putting Dad through a surgery to biopsy it when they're not sure what it is.
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