Elephant guns and Opiates....

So this is Dad's new bone scan, I can't really post his CT scans because there are too many images.
Some condensed notes from the Dr. that read the scans:
-no new tumors - (wOOhOO)
-no change in existing lung tumors (there are 4 mentioned in his left side and 3 in his right)
-no further lymph node growth, lymph node involvement seems to be staying within his chest cavity and from all I read there is no node involvement below his lungs
-bones appear "relatively stable"
-the largest tumor in his liver may have grown

I hope to read the written report at some point and will add anything is different.

Dad has been taken off the Percocet and now on OxyContin. The Oncologist said that all those "perky pills" were not helping his liver. So now it is all Opiates. (if you remember, his patch is also an Opiate) The Oncologist said "we may need an elephant gun to take him down" if this doesnt work - so Dad told me I was in charge of finding an elephant gun. At least we can still laugh. He has lost 12.5 pouns in the last 6 weeks and his red blood cells are pretty low.

The plan:

It is still somewhat up in the air. We should know what is going to happen Monday or Tuesday with the trial. So far he qualifies for the trial, they are just waiting for the results from the liver function test. He has signed all the paperwork and is ready to start when they are ready.
A reminder of the way it works:
-a computer will randomly select whether he gets Altima or Taxotere - both Chemo drugs, just attack different parts of cancer sells. Chemo is every three weeks regardless of what type, he will get six treatments. The Altima doesn't take as long to IV as the Taxotere.
-a computer then randomly selects whether he gets the Centuximab (trial drug). If he is chosen for the Centuximab he will get that every week. This takes about 1.5 hours, then they have to observe him for an hour to make sure there is not immediate reaction to the drug.
-He will also have the standard "pre-treatment" drugs (bone hardener, nasuea med, etc.)

That is the best I can do right now, it is late and I am exhausted. I will post more next week after I find out the results on the trial and what he will be getting.
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