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Saturday, July 16, 2011

I'm done with chemo!

This post is a little late.  I actually finished chemo about four weeks ago now.  I was told two weeks ago that I didn't have to go through round 6 because my last two CA-125s were normal which basically means I am considered to be cancer free.  Instead of doing chemo last week, they did the CT scan that was supposed to be done after round 6.  I was really excited that they were going to keep me on the Avastin study, but then I got the CT results.  It showed there was a cyst on top of my bladder and there was ambient air in my abdomen.  I am now scheduled for another CT with an interventional radiologist to see if they can drain the cyst.  He was doing the extra CT to see if it has grown at all or to see if they can get a better position so they can access it.  If not, I guess I will be on antibiotics for as long as it takes for it to go away on its own.  And because they found the air in my abdomen, they took me off the study since perforations of the bowel are one of the possible side effects of the study drug.  Oh well...