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@hopeful33250

Hello @kim1965

I so appreciate your encouraging post to @sweet63. I'm so glad that your wife has done so well. Yes, having a NETs often has a much slower growth than other cancers.
How is your wife feeling now? You mention that she is taking chemo by pills, do you mind sharing the name of the chemo medication she is taking?

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Absolutely, she is on a two week cycle on and two weeks off of chemo. For all 14 days of the cycle she takes Capecitabine 500mg tablets, and from day 10 - 14 of each cycle she takes in addition to the Capecitabine, Temozolomide 100mg tablets. She has completed six straight cycles since April diagnosis, with a probable continuance until there is no more improvement, then possible surgery on the mass around the pancreas once it is the smallest the chemo can get it. Our follow-up with Froedert is November 29th, to make final decision. As I mentioned before, there are certainly still good and bad days still, but she has been able to continue to work part-time through all cycles, as a small side benefit, with no loss of hair.