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• Bloodwork, appointment with Dr. T NP S and treatment at Siteman South County

There are a couple new things on my CT that we are going to watch, but they could just be side effects from the cryoablation. My next scheduled scan, in 12 weeks, should give us a clearer picture on them. Some good news is that the two tumors in my liver that were treated by cryoablation seem to have reacted well to that treatment. Since my scan is "not bad at all actually," we are going to try using maintenance chemo again (Xeloda and Avastin) to keep my disease stable and not growing. The peritoneal tumors that Dr. C saw during my surgery in May are still not large enough to show up on my scan, so that's good, but then we also don't know what is going on with them. To paint a mental picture of the peritoneal tumors, NP S used the analogy of when you blow on a dandelion and all the little bits go everywhere. So we know I have all of these little bits, but they aren't grouped together to be large enough to appear on the CT yet. I still haven't decided if I like that analogy or not.

So the idea is for my own immune system and the maintenance chemo to work together to keep them small. Bring on stability...