She met with Dr Cho a few days ago and at first he said she should come back and get a CT in 6 months. She asked if getting one in 10 days made any sense (what Dr Moon wants), and he said no it wouldn't show anything for 3 to 6 months. He believes all the pain is being caused by the tumor in the upper lobe pressing on the nerve fibers and it could take up to 6 months to get relief (she had gone to using 2 pain patches, but says it's not nearly enough). Then he came out to where they were sitting and asked how long she'd be in Korea. She said a week or 2 and he said she should stay and have a CT in a month. But mom is ready to come home and told Dr Moon that she wanted to talk to him about next steps. He said he wanted to wait until he sees the cancer markers so he had blood drawn.
Here are the tumor marker results:
CEA before 17 now 7 (normal <5)
CA72-4 was 4 now normal
CA15-3 was 33 now normal
NSE was 32 now normal
Whoa. I feel... happy. This is good, yes? Really good, right? Can I feel this? Is it okay to?
