Monday, May 07, 2012

Decision

After several weeks of not knowing what I was going to I have finally decided that I am going to continue doing the treatment instead of just having surgery to remove it.  The reason for this is because although the cells are still there they have decreased significantly since October which indicates that the cells are responding to treatment.  They are just not responding as fast as they wanted them to be.  So for now I am continuing on hormone treatment and my doctor is seeing if they can get approval for a breast cancer drug that has shown in studies to help cure this form of cancer.  The government has to approve the use of this drug because it is currently only approved for breast cancer treatment so they have to have special permission to use it.  The only problem with this drug is it has a lot of negative side effects but if it is only for a couple of months I think I can live with it.  

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