As my husband's oncologist once said, ten or fifteen years from now, we're going to look back on chemotherapy and current treatments for cancer and say "Wow. That was practically voodoo"
Chemotherapy, for all the good it can do, is still very much hit or miss and based on 'killing the cancer SLIGHTLY faster than we kill the patient' - and sometimes, the latter gets ahead of the former and it's time to change, which is what it sounds like with your dad.
There's still a chance they can put the kibbosh on the metabolically active areas and that's a GOOD thing. That's why it's "mixed" rather than "Frustrating and/or bad"
My hubby's stuck on a plateau at the moment which has us climbing the walls. It won't be until the next CAT scan that we know if it's just the one tumor being stubborn, or maybe it's retreated but a whole bunch of other areas have lit up, instead - in which case, there ain't much mixed about it. Sigh.
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I Can Sympathize
Date: 2009-07-22 07:53 pm (UTC)Chemotherapy, for all the good it can do, is still very much hit or miss and based on 'killing the cancer SLIGHTLY faster than we kill the patient' - and sometimes, the latter gets ahead of the former and it's time to change, which is what it sounds like with your dad.
There's still a chance they can put the kibbosh on the metabolically active areas and that's a GOOD thing. That's why it's "mixed" rather than "Frustrating and/or bad"
My hubby's stuck on a plateau at the moment which has us climbing the walls. It won't be until the next CAT scan that we know if it's just the one tumor being stubborn, or maybe it's retreated but a whole bunch of other areas have lit up, instead - in which case, there ain't much mixed about it. Sigh.
*hugs* Good luck.