I visited my oncologist today. He surprised me by saying he wants to wait another 2 months and then do another PET CT scan. He said he wants to give my body more time to recover from the last chemotherapy treatment, which ended in April of this year. He said the better I am, the more effective the next chemotherapy treatment will be.
He thinks there’s no harm in waiting for that amount of time. He wants to find out if the hot spots on the previous scan get bigger or stay the same. If the disease is stable, then I may be able to delay chemotherapy until next year, but he doesn’t think that will happen.
I have worked out that I am a bit of an experiment. No one has lived as long as I have, with the recurrence as many times as I have had. He has told me previously that the longest anyone had survived before me was 11 years. I’m a record for him!