After a nice break from doctor visits, it was time for my 3 month check-up with the oncologist today. For many years, I believe, I will be going every 3 months to see how things are going. If no symptoms or irregularities occur, they apparently don’t do follow-up scans. All looks good! I had a few questions,the memory/focus issues (which have improved), my back, a couple of headaches, all were not of concern. Apparently cancer is not subtle (or at least recurrences are not, since the onset was silent). IF it is present, symptoms will worsen, not decrease, making it easy to identify. So I appear to continue to experience good health! My blood pressure still is high, just borderline, and they will monitor that. I must go for repeat EKG and echocardiogram in 2 weeks, and I am hoping they will be clear. If so, I can continue my trial – hopefully for the full year. Side effects from the neratanib are non-existent now, and that is what the patients have been reported, the first couple of months are the worst. So now, I hopefully just enjoy the benefits of the advanced medicine!
