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Greetings From Round Five

It has been a crazy last two days. Crazy in the sense that they were more than expected.
First, we got some good news: the CT scan after my fourth round was mostly unchanged from after my second round, so we’re calling this a “complete response after two cycles” and that the disease has remained stable …

October 15, 2009 – 10:23 pm | By Tom | Posted in Treatment Phase | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Great Progress After Two Treatments

Last Friday I had another CT scan. We wanted to see the effects of two rounds worth of chemotherapeutic bombardment, and we were not disappointed!
Lymph nodes all over my body that were enlarged and opaque had returned to normal-sized translucency. My spleen has shrunk from enlarged-size to much closer to normal. Observe!
Spleen as seen in …

September 3, 2009 – 7:50 pm | By Tom | Posted in Treatment Phase | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (2)