All Good News

It has been a very long time since I have update this blog, apologies, because I am overdue!
I'll give you recent history:
Last summer, I received radiation to try to prevent additional recurrences.  (I had experiences on in May 2011 while on a PARP inhibitor called BSI-201).  The radiation followed surgery in May 2011 (my third, but who is keeping track?)
In October 2011, Bill and I celebrated our 20th anniversary by going to France.  We spent 2 days at a lovely chateau right on the Dordogne River...stuff that fairy tales are made of.  This was followed by yet another recurrence of cancer, outside the field of radiation, but in seemingly all the wrong places.  So my wonderful doctors at Dana Farber got me into a research trial which was just opening November 7th to test 2 drugs.  One is a PARP inhibitor, called Oliparib, and the other is a VEG-F inhibitor, called Cederanib, which is an Avastin type drug.  It is a Phase double arm trial sponsored by the NIH.  One group gets just the Oliparib and the other group gets both.  I ended up as a patient on both drugs.
Within 2 months, the tumors were reduced by 50%.  In April of this year, they were reduced by 75% and recently, they have become non measurable. So Dana Farber has recorded this as a complete response to the therapy.
I will have to stay on the drugs, (which are oral,) and experience some side effects, but hopefully they will continue to be effective. So that is all good news about a targeted therapy that is being tested!
 I did not do the PMC this year, but Emily and Nathaniel completed the 50 mile ride with their Uncle Morgan.  I am proud of them because it was such a hot day!!
Any money for cancer research is money well spent.  I am an obvious beneficiary!
Thank you for all your support!!