Birthday Blog
Three years ago, on December 14th, I was in an ER trying to make sense of the words I had just been told..."We see that you have metastatic cancer, and we don't know where it started from. We'd like to admit you into the hospital." On that day in the ER, I was 54 years and one week old, and I had no idea what having metastatic cancer meant. During that hospital admission, we didn't get much in the way of good news. The imaging scans I'd had showed cancer in my lung, liver and bones. One positive piece of news was that I did not have mets to my brain. (More on that in an upcoming blog.) Today I celebrate my 57th birthday. Frankly, I'm astonished that I am still here. If it weren't for Xalkori, (my targeted oral chemotherapy,) I wouldn't be. I've been on it, off-label, for 33+ months now. I recently heard that FDA approval of Xalkori for ROS1 mutation-driven lung cancer is expected ve...