CT Scans #14 and Joint Disease in Cancer Patients
Well...I was very close to being able to do it. I was almost able to wait a full 6 months between CT scans this time. I initially scheduled this round of scans 6 months from my last ones, but unfortunately in late September, I had a couple weeks of feeling really crappy, (more than the usual fatigue and not just some achiness, but down right pain, especially in the bones of my left hip). As I have done before, whenever I feel crappy for more than a few days, I convince myself that my cancer has figured its way around my chemotherapy and that I've entered the phase called "disease progression." Despite trying to be as reasonable and rational as possible, I know that I'm not over reacting...the clinical trial report indicated that the average ROS1 lung cancer patient on Xalkori will have 19.2 months of disease control. I've been on Xalkori for 55+ months. (Pretty soon that will be 3-times longer than expected!) ...