Cyberknife

I met with the Cyberknife people at Kennestone hospital in Marietta, Ga. They said I could do standard radiation for the rib but it would take 5 weeks and probably would not work. Or I could do Cyberknife, High dose radiation in three sessions and it probably would work and is often as good as surgery.

I had the rib treated around Thanksgiving. Minimal side effects...nausea and some vomiting. A month later, just this past week right at new years I had the kidney lesion treated....more severe side effects but I survived. During the scans for the kidney treatment the doctor noticed that the rib lesion has shrunk dramatically. So it appears that the radiation is doing some good up to this point.

I am scheduled for scans with Dr. Sosman on March 3rd, 2009. Hopefully we will see some positive results from all this.

On to the next treatment.

After suffering through the effects of IL-2 treatment, CT scans at Vanderbilt revealed that it did not work for me. I had growth on the rib lesion and kidney lesion. The lung lesion seems to have remained stable at 5 mm.
So what's next...Dr. Sosman suggested radiation for the rib lesion and the possibility of drug treatment. We briefly discussed Avastin but decided to treat the rib and go from there.

I contacted the Cyberknife center on Marietta and will meet with them about treatment.