Caroline Stoufer:  

and I did. I have about 12 tumors in my liver, but we've managed to slow the growth down with chemotherapy. I did try some alternative methods. I took a lot of vitamin C which I think made my tumors grow faster. I did a clinical trial for Sorafenib, a chemo that works well on renal (kidney) cancer, but it didn't work for me or any other cancer patients that I correspond with that were on the same trial. I started chemo in May 2006, and I'm still in this world. The cancer metastisized to my left hip bone in September 2006, and I had radiation for two weeks in November. Suzie took us all to see the Beatles Cirque de Soleil Show for my birthday later that month which was so much fun. The CD of the show is great. A lot of the alternative tracks come from the Beatles Anthology album series. I'm so glad George Martin (their producer and the "fifth" Beatle in my opinion) is still alive and was able to do this project with his son. The Las Vegas show is good, but expensive, but the soundtrack is far out, man. I had to go off chemo during the month of November which allowed two of tumors to grow a little bit at my Januaray 2007 scan. I was really tired and fatigued in December 2006 - February 2007. I had a bone scan in February which came back clear, but I told the radiologist I had a lot of pain in my left thigh. I had an MRI in late February which showed I had developed a rare condition called radiation myositis which was caused by one of my chemo drugs, Gemzar or gemcitabine. This is a condition where the chemo drug induces a recall of radiation side effects, whether you had the side effect during radiation or not. Mine is a severe pain in my left thigh. So they put me on steroids and I've had lots of energy, and in fact got a bit manic due to some drug interactions, but we've gotten all that straightened out. I have an oldies show on the local low-power radio station, KURA, on Sunday afternoons. I also have a blog-search by Caroline's Cancer Diary.