A Turn of Events
On November 26, we got the miraculous news that all 15 of my brain tumors had disappeared. Disappeared! (I thought I only had 13 tumors in my brain, but what do I know? They're gone, regardless!) What a joy to celebrate such incredible news during the Thanksgiving season! I've never really had such a response to treatment. Lots of women achieve NED, (No Evidence of Disease), but I never have. Even still, I wasn't yet at No Evidence of Disease, because the brain MRI only looked at my brain. I have cancer throughout the rest of my body as well - in my spine, ribs, pelvis, scapula, etc., and in my liver. So I was excited and nervous to go to my CT scan yesterday. Everything had been stable in my bones and liver since I started Trodelvy in May 2023. While I had had to switch treatments recently, it was due to the new tumors found in my brain, not in the rest of my body. It seemed almost a given that my bones and liver would continue to hold steady. My liver had other ideas. It ...