New Treatment Plan

After a 7 week break I am going back into chemotherapy tomorrow. We are going with a new combination of chemo agents based on what we know from previous treatments (this one will be the forth run). The salvo includes Xeloda, Erbitux and Oxaliplatin.

Part of me is relieved because being off of chemo gave me quite a bit of anxiety. This regimen will probably be rougher than the last one but that is ok because my oncologist believes it will be more effective. For me, the big take away from my appointment yesterday is that my oncologist feels confident that we can control the disease based on the characteristics it has presented to us up until now. He said there are many new treatments on the horizon to look forward to and our goal right now is to keep the cancer at bay.