A slight miscalculation - posted by Pierre

We had our meeting with Laura's oncologist today before her 5th chemo treatment tomorrow. The basic physical went alright, but when we asked about the PET scan she is supposed to have at the end of all her chemo treatments and when it would be, we got a surprise. As I posted earlier, we thought she would be done after 6-8 treatments. Apparently we misunderstood an earlier meeting with him when he said she would have 6-8 rounds of chemo, not 6-8 treatments.

What's the difference? 1 round = 2 treatments. Today he confirmed that she will be having 6 rounds of chemo. That means 12 treatments. That means after tomorrow's she will still have 7 more to go. Not exactly what we were counting on. At least she has been lucky enough that the side effects are not that horrible or long lasting!

So it looks like she will not be done until May sometime and will go for her PET scan then. Our oncologist will send her for a CT scan and gallium scan after her 6th treatment (or, if you are keeping track mathematically, at the end of her 3rd round) and we could find out more info on how the treatment is affecting the cancer then. Can't wait!