Scans VIII
Between New York, Paris & Singapore
The murder trial in New Jersey has kept me busy. In the meantime, Rusty’s back in Seoul readying to leave. He has decided to re-locate back to the US for good. As for me, I will wrap up work here, then head back to Singapore. It will take me a few weeks to settle my things - work, family, friends - before I join him back in New York.
We had new scans done on Monday, and the results are in. The tumors in his lungs are stable, but the ones in his liver are growing. There used to be only two. In the latest report, it now says “multiple”.
It was a very difficult three-hour wait at Dr Pavlick’s office at NYU yesterday. By the second hour we had convinced ourselves that the cancer had spread everywhere. Even though the cancer is moving quickly, we comfort ourselves that it remains isolated in one organ.
Today we will meet with Dr Jedd Wolchok from Sloan-Kettering to discuss starting on a clinical trial. The drug is called Medarex, or MDX-010. Manufactured by Bristol-Meyers Squibb, it has shown some promise with melanoma patients and was granted orphan drug status to be fast-tracked through the FDA.
In the meantime, the fall winds in New York grow colder.
January 18th, 2007 at 5:38 am
[…] Jesse and I cried in each other’s arms last night. He’s having some pain in his right abdominal area, and we think it may be due to the melanoma. Our worries are not unfounded. About a month ago, the radiology report observed new, multiple tumors in his liver. Measuring 1 to 2cm each, they were small, but growing. […]