Hi everyone,
I haven't been on this board much in almost a year... reason being is because my Dad has been doing so well, and to be 100% honest I tried to stay away from everything cancer-related because it can be overwhelming and frankly, depressing!
From my signature you can see what my Dad's story is. He was stage 4 that was treated aggressively and seemed to be great until now. He has been going for scans regularly, every 3 months and a week ago they found several new brain mets. The doctors say looking back on the scans they can see that the spots were probably there for some time, but because they are so small it wasn't for sure. He is scheduled for radiosurgery next week, which was done before and worked very well. Still, this is a setback and setbacks are never good....
The good from his story is that since his lung radiation and one cycle of chemo, his chest CT scans have great. 15 months out and his oncologist said for the chest/body we can go to a 4 month schedule on that.
I guess my question for the doctors is, with this latest development would you still consider my Dad's case to be in the "indolent disease" category? He hasn't had WBR since January 2010 and at that time the primary tumor was not located and not treated, and wouldn't be treated until almost 7 months later. Do you think it is possible that these mets have been there for this long?
I sincerely appreciate your input.
