Finished up all my follow-up appointments for this round with an Oncologist visit on Wednesday and an appointment with the ENT Oncologist on Thursday. Both went well with no surprises to report. That's a good thing.
Dr. Williamson (Oncologist) did give me a little more info on prognosis and life expectancy that I posted about a couple of months ago, though. Not specific numbers but generalities.
With a year and five clean scans behind me he said the prognosis is "much improved" over the initial survival rate they gave me before treatment started. He said each year that goes by without incident the prognosis goes up pretty significantly. While not unheard of, he said it's rare for the cancer to recur after two years of clean scans. Again, no specific statistics but encouraging generalities.
On the life expectancy after a successful 5-years of scans question, he said cancer survivors do have increased risk of contracting other cancers compared to the general population. In my case, lung cancer or esophageal cancer would be the highest risk. The drugs and the radiation do create a somewhat increased risk of heart problems but, overall, he said life expectancy after successful treatment is only slightly reduced from the general population.
So, good news on both fronts.
I now have a follow up with Dr. Tsue (ENT Oncologist) at the end of April then nothing else until July when I'll have my next round of scans and follow-up appointments with everyone. My goal is to get things stretched out far enough that when I go in they don't recognize me and pull out my chart before I check in. Non-recognition, in this case, would be a positive thing.
I'll likely stretch out my postings as well so I can do what I can to get out of Cancer mode and back into normal population mode. Shouldn't be much to report for quite a while any way.
9 comments:
I've enjoyed reading your blog and am wondering how you have been doing. You're in my thoughts.
I rejoice in your good news. I too have health issues that have altered my life dramatically, but none that are potentially fatal, yet anyway. I say "yet" because I seem to be developing more problems as I go along, as if I'm on a downhill slide.
I wish you every good thing.
good blog i recently had a couple health issues also that effected me.. i feel you 100 percent
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