Mar 21, 2020 | Jan's Blog |
Life has changed dramatically since I last wrote in my blog just over a month ago. Even though the Coronavirus is getting most of the attention, cancer is still a looming reality for many of us, and that’s the focus of my blog. In my last post I said I would be doing...
Feb 11, 2020 | Jan's Blog |
My cancer marker numbers went up dramatically for four months in a row, and my oncologist said it was time to do something different. She recommended I take either Ibrance or Megace. If I started to take either of these drugs, I would be making that decision out of...
Jan 6, 2020 | Jan's Blog |
I started the New Year with a Cancer marker up by more than 1,000. Normal is 38 and mine is almost 4,000. There is only one hormone treatment that I haven’t tried (for estrogen receptor positive breast cancer), so I guess Megace will be next. Of course I am on the...
Dec 11, 2019 | Jan's Blog |
I’m on my second month of taking Arimidex, an aromatase inhibitor, after a few months on Tamoxifen which quit doing its job. I just had my CA27.29 blood test and my numbers went up by 800 in the past two months. I didn’t have the test in November because I had just...
Nov 5, 2019 | Jan's Blog |
I often want to wait to post on my blog until I have good news, but who is to say what is and isn’t good news. I will tell you what is happening, trying not to judge it as good or bad. After two months of having my cancer marker numbers go down, they then shot up...
Aug 15, 2019 | Jan's Blog |
Last month my CA 27.29 went down by 11 points. Not much, but in the right direction for the first time in a year. I said in my last post that “I anticipate a more dramatic down-turn in August.” It happened! It went down by 323 points, the most it has ever gone down in...
