the blind fold comes off!!!

As many of you know, I have been participating in a clinical trial for my chemo. One of the reason I choose CINJ was for the opportunity to get cutting edge treatment and kick cancers ass! So all along I was getting the standard of care chemo regimen but I was also potentially getting the drug Avastin which has shown amazing results in survival. At a conference this weekend I was told that it has more then double the survival rate in other patients getting that drug that has been on the market for other cancers like colon, rectum, lung and advanced breast.

So today before treatment number 14, I found out what was truly in the drug bag that has been marked "placebo or bevacizumab" and found out what arm of the trial I am on.. I GOT WHAT I WANTED!!!!!! I am on arm B which means that I have been getting the drug all along and will be done in 2 weeks!!!! yup, November 30 is the last day!!!!!! I am so excited!!!!

For my med ed friends, after all the millions of slides and chart I have created for clinical trials I am now a part of one of the charts! The study is Phase III Randomized Study of Adjuvant Therapy Comprising Doxorubicin Hydrochloride, Cyclophosphamide, and Paclitaxel With Versus Without Bevacizumab in Patients With Lymph Node-Positive or High-Risk, Lymph Node-Negative Breast Cancer. I wonder who will be designing the slides! ha ha It is also a monoclonal anti body!

I also met with my radiation oncologist today and I will be doing my 6-7 weeks of radiation in Hamilton at CINJ Hamilton and the doctor I really wanted agreed to come down to Hamilton to see me so I could stay with him and my amazing team! We have our first meeting to get things set up and simulated on Thursday, December 10 and will start shortly after that. Radiation will be every day monday- friday.

The end is so near!!!!!!!

Thanks for all the love and support and keep reading my blog as I continue to keep you up to date.