January Update

In my last post I explained that my chemo was bad enough we didn’t repeat it.

Dr Corn ran a scan on me that did a targeted highlight of my cancer - it was very precise, pointing out some lymph node cancer that would usually be missed with a normal scan. Good news is that I am one of the 80% of guys who can use a newly released treatment called PLUVICTO, which uses the same targeting chemicals to carry a small nuclear payload to the prostate cancer cells.

Bad news is that it is a new treatment and the drug is only manufactured in the Netherlands. The soonest he could get it for me was “late March or April”. That doesn’t seem terrible, but Dr. Corn, quite frankly, doesn’t think I have that long with no further treatments.

SO, that means we will go in for a once/week dose of chemo instead of a once/3 week dose. Hopefully, it will be less traumatic for my body. After all, it is one-third the amount of chemical poison in my system.

He hoped that he could get me in a clinical trial on the next gen of PLUVICTO-like treatment, but we just found out that fell through since I have a spot of cancer on my liver, which rules me out.

As the doctor states, we hope that all these treatments (I’m guessing he includes PLUVICTO in that) will get me into early 2024 and something else will come along that will do me more good.

Darling is at her wit’s end and cries a lot. And there seems to be nothing I can do about it.

So far, the chemo from last Thursday is giving me stomach aches and loose bowels, but it is mostly an inconvenience and great annoyance. I feel that my body is fighting hard and (as usual) I'm greatly fatigued, but what are my metrics?

What are the chances of being cured?

Slim, I'm thinking.

Thanks for reading.