Results

The radiologist has read my PET scan and the result is "Stable Disease." In other words, the cancer is neither growing nor shrinking. Given how aggressive this disease is, this is very good news. 

I'll admit that I was hoping for some further shrinkage. I responded so well to the chemo + immunotherapy regimen that I was hoping that I would also respond unusually well to the immunotherapy alone. However, my oncologist says that in the end it doesn't much matter whether the tumor shrinks further. The main thing is to keep it from progressing again for as long as possible. And so far, that is what is happening.

I find myself a little sobered, though, at the thought that I am now transitioning away from crisis mode to Living With Cancer. This cancer will always be with me, and someday it will probably kill me.

But not today. And not even this year. For that I am deeply grateful.